The Tiger Mom’s TaleLyn Liao Butler. Berkley, $17 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-19872-8
Butler’s riveting debut follows a half-white personal trainer who reconnects with her Taiwanese family after her biological father’s death. Thirty-something New Yorker Lexa Thomas learns from her half sister, Hsu-Ling, that their father, Jing Tao, died in an accident. Hsu-Ling tells Lexa that just b... Continue reading »
UTube: Inspector Mislan and the Emancipatist ConspiracyRozlan Mohd Noor. Arcade CrimeWise, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-950691-42-5
A rape case drives Noor’s excellent third Malaysian procedural starring Insp. Mislan Latif of Kuala Lumpur’s Special Investigation Unit (after DUKE: Inspector Mislan and the Expressway Murders). The victim, marketing v-p Era Amilia Zabidin, was sexually assaulted in her apartment by two mas... Continue reading »
The Exiled FleetJ.S. Dewes. Tor, $17.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-23636-4
The surviving Sentinels of 2020’s The Last Watch face starvation and madness at the edge of the universe in the thrilling second space opera of Dewes’s Divide series. Six months after the events of book one, Sentinels Cavalon and Mesa work to get the Typhos’s jump drive online whil... Continue reading »
What If You & MeRoni Loren. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4926-9325-3
Loren’s powerful, uplifting second Say Everything romance (after Yes & I Love You) delves into themes of trauma, consent, and recovery. As a teen, Andi Lockley was exploited and betrayed by someone she trusted, leaving her with PTSD and anxiety. As an adult, she channels her fears into a ca... Continue reading »
Seek You: A Journey Through American LonelinessKristen Radtke. Pantheon, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-524-74806-7
As Radtke (Imagine Wanting Only This) notes at the outset of this gripping graphic investigation, she had no way of knowing, when she began researching isolation in 2016, how on-trend her topic would become. Combining personal narrative with social science, evolutionary biology, and pop cul... Continue reading »
CurbDivya Victor. Nightboat, $16.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-64362-070-1
Victor’s unsettling latest (after Kith) chronicles the violence perpetrated against South Asians by domestic terrorists, government bureaucracy, and other agents of the state. While the poems offer an impressive array of linguistic and historical referents, they locate their political criti... Continue reading »
Gold of Pleasure: A Novel of Christina of MarkyateRuth Mohrman. Cadoc, $8.15 e-book (398p) ASIN B08T1QR7YC
In this stunning debut, Mohrman brings medieval prioress Christina of Markyate to life. In 1143 St. Albans, England, the abbot requests Christina share her life story and visions of God and the Virgin Mary with a local priest so that they may be recorded. Though the abbey treats her like a saint, Ch... Continue reading »
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow SouthWinfred Rembert, as Told to Erin I Kelly. Bloomsbury, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6355-7659-7
In this posthumous work, artist Rembert (1945–2021) offers a powerful, unfiltered look at life growing up in Jim Crow Georgia. “This was a time when everybody was above the law—if you were White... they just made up their mind about what they wanted to do with you and that’s what they did,” he recal... Continue reading »
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern MedicineRobert H. Lustig. Harper Wave, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-302771-8
Pediatric endocrinologist Lustig (Fat Chance) serves up an eye-opening survey to explain why processed food is killing people. Forty years of medical practice convinced Lustig that the problem was not what’s in food, but what’s been done to food: processed foods (largely thanks to added sug... Continue reading »
A Bridge in Babylon: Stories of a Military Chaplain in IraqOwen R. Chandler. Chalice, $16.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8272-0317-4
Military chaplain Chandler debuts with a frank, faith-filled account of military life during his 2016 deployment in Iraq. Chandler was pastor of a Disciples of Christ church in Tucson when his Army Reserve unit was mobilized; Chandler was tasked with providing counseling and religious support to tro... Continue reading »
WishesMượn Thị Văn, illus. By Victo Ngai. Orchard, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-338-30589-0
Inspired by her own family’s refugee journey from Vietnam to Hong Kong, Văn’s (If You Were Night) spare picture book, powerful in its deliberate simplicity, follows a black-haired, pale-skinned child as they, their guardian, and two younger siblings join other asylum seekers for a perilous ... Continue reading »
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