The First Sentence Reader

Eisenhower, Dwight D.  At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends.  New York: Doubleday 1967 . Print. First Sentences: Talking to oneself in Abilene...

Gleason, Steve .  A Life Impossible: Living With ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence . New York: Knoff 2024 . Print. Fi...

Lamb, Wally.  The Hour I First Believed . New York: HarperColliuns 2008 . Print. First Sentences: They were both working their final shift a...

Read, Shelley. Go As a River . New York: Spiegel & Grau 2023 . Print. First Sentences: He wasn't much to look at....

Ng, Celeste . Our Missing Hearts . New York: Penguin. 2022 . Print. First Sentences: The letter arrives on a Friday. Slit and resealed with ...

Lamb, Wally .  She's Come Undone . New York: Washington Square Press 1992 . Print. First Sentences: In one of my earliest memories, my m...

Smith, Tom Rob .   Cold People . New York: Scribner 2023 . Print. First Sentences: Looking up at the night sky Ui saw only unfamiliar stars....

  Doig, Ivan. English Creek . New York: Antheneum 1984 . Print First Sentences: That month of June swam into the Two Med...

Dregni, Eric. For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota 2021 . Print...