Love FormsClaire Adam. Hogarth, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-23092-3
In the gripping and heart-rending latest from Adam (Golden Child), a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption decades earlier. When Dawn Bishop got pregnant at 16 in 1980, her wealthy parents, owners of a popular juice company in Trinidad and Tobago, sent her away to have th... Continue reading »
We Don’t Talk About CarolKristen L. Berry. Bantam, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-97443-8
Berry debuts with a striking and soulful crime novel about a woman investigating her aunt’s decades-old disappearance. Publicist Sydney Singleton draws on her skills as a former investigative reporter when she learns, after her grandmother’s death, that she had an aunt she never knew about. After a ... Continue reading »
The Nightshade GodHannah Whitten. Orbit, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-43559-8
The stunning conclusion to Whitten’s Nightshade Crown trilogy (after The Hemlock Queen) begins with protagonists Lore, Gabe, and Bastian torn apart by the events of the previous book. Deathwitch Lore has been trapped on the Burnt Isles, a prison colony, by Bastian, king of Auverraine, who i... Continue reading »
Fan FavoriteAdrienne Gunn. Grand Central, $18.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6825-9
Gunn debuts with a hilarious romance exploring the ways in which pop culture influences every aspect of life, from the products people buy to their perceptions of love. Reality TV junkie Edie Pepper, 35, is decidedly unhappy with her life following a bad breakup and a series of even worse hookups. S... Continue reading »
MotherloverLindsay Ishihiro. Iron Circus, $25 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-63899-146-5
Video game writer and web cartoonist Ishihiro (How Baby) debuts with this vibrant slow-burn sapphic romance. Imogen is living the life she always dreamed of: she’s a stay-at-home mom with four kids and a ponytail-sporting husband, Jonathan, who handles the family’s finances (“It’s OK babe..... Continue reading »
rock flightHasib Hourani. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3885-4
This urgent debut from Hourani spotlights Palestine’s struggle for liberation through a book-length poem interwoven with personal history. Hourani grapples with how to find adequate language to confront histories of occupation and genocide: “the more time i spend with words/ the more i realize that ... Continue reading »
The Long March HomeMarcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion BansKylie Cheung. Pluto, $17.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-7453-5061-5
In this incendiary follow-up to Survivor Injustice, which drew parallels between abortion bans and domestic abuse, Jezebel staff writer Cheung surveys the “gruesome horrors” being inflicted upon women, children, pregnant people, and rape survivors in a post-Roe America. Ch... Continue reading »
Bloody Hell! Adventures in Menopause from Around the WorldEdited by Mona Eltahawy. Unbound, $18.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-80018-371-1
Menopause is both “shit” and “amazing,” according to this spirited anthology edited by journalist Eltahawy (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls). Aiming to present an “antidote” to a type of taboo-busting feminist approach to the topic that mainly appeals to “white, wealthy, cisgen... Continue reading »
The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White EvangelicalismHolly Berkley Fletcher. Broadleaf, $29.99 (272p) ISBN 979-8-88983-203-4
Historian Fletcher (Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century) incisively explores the dark underbelly of American evangelical missionary work via the experiences of missionaries’ children. Drawing on her own childhood in Kenya and interviews with 80 others who w... Continue reading »
This Could Be ForeverEbony LaDelle. Simon & Schuster, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6659-4867-8
This timely, touching novel by LaDelle (Love Radio) is a moving exploration of love’s potential to bridge cultural divides. Sparks fly when Black teen Deja Martin and Nepali American teen Raja Sharma meet at a tattoo shop in D.C. The pair’s budding romance goes into full bloom over the cour... Continue reading »
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