CécéEmmelie Prophète, trans. from the French by Aidan Rooney. Archipelago, $18 trade paper (218p) ISBN 978-1-962770-41-5
Haitian diplomat and novelist Prophète (Blue) delivers a winning narrative of an enterprising woman seeking to maintain her independence in her poverty-stricken neighborhood on the edge of Port-au-Prince. In the gang-ruled Cité of Divine Power, the sight of a beheaded, burned, and bullet-ri... Continue reading »
The Black WolfLouise Penny. Minotaur, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-32817-5
Penny’s exemplary 20th mystery featuring Chief Insp. Armand Gamache of the Québec Sûreté (after The Grey Wolf) picks up where its predecessor left off, with Gamache and his cohort reeling from the revelation that a conspiracy to poison Montréal’s drinking water was just the beginning of a f... Continue reading »
You Weren’t Meant to Be HumanAndrew Joseph White. Saga, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3807-9
The supernatural horror of bestselling YA author White’s staggering adult debut (after Hell Followed with Us) is made all the more terrifying by how deeply it resonates with the very real threats facing trans people. Crane is an autistic trans man who lives and works in Appalachia. He belie... Continue reading »
Last on the ListAmy Daws. Canary Street, $18.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-335-49842-7
In the sweet and spicy fifth romance in Daws’s Wait with Me series (after Take a Number), a precocious 11-year-old helps her father find love. Colorado millionaire Max Fletcher is nervous about spending the summer with his daughter, Everly, while his ex-wife heads on vacation, as it’s been ... Continue reading »
The Name and the Mark (Vattu #1)Evan Dahm. Iron Circus, $25 trade paper (270p) ISBN 978-1-63899-155-7
The spectacular first volume of Dahm’s long-running webcomic ushers readers into an instantly immersive fantasy world. In the year “855 of the Blue Age,” a girl named Vattu is born into a nomadic tribe of diminutive, musical people called “fluters.” As Vattu grows up, she develops a contentious rela... Continue reading »
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly Edited by David Baker and Michael Collier. Norton, $39.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-32410-593-0
This definitive retrospective gathers the work of an allusive, musical, and stylish writer and introduces nine new poems to his oeuvre. As in Plumly’s Selected Poems, the entries are presented in reverse chronology, helping to highlight the evolution of the poet’s voice, his turn towards a ... 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 »
Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian AmericaJeff Chang. Mariner, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-358-72647-0
Journalist Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop) recounts the life of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in this panoramic biography. Born in San Francisco in 1940, Lee grew up in Hong Kong, where he started acting at age six. As a teen, Lee developed a penchant for street fighting, spurring him to... Continue reading »
Real Japanese Cooking: The Only Japanese Cookbook You Will Ever Need!Makiko Itoh. Tuttle, $39.99 (512p) ISBN 978-4-8053-1615-3
This excellent compendium from Itoh (The Just Bento Cookbook) offers an encyclopedic introduction to “the complete range of modern Japanese home cooking.” She breaks down Japanese food into three main styles: washoku, or traditional fare, includes sake-steamed cod, mixed rice with greens (“... Continue reading »
As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase UsSarah Hurwitz. HarperOne, $32.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-337497-3
Former White House speechwriter Hurwitz (Here All Along) makes a full-throated case for Judaism’s relevance in an increasingly secular and often openly antisemitic world. Raised on a “cultural Judaism” from which she gleaned mostly “a collection of social justice slogans and self-help clic... Continue reading »
Invisible: The (Sort of) True Story of Me and My Hidden DiseaseDavid Soren. Penguin Workshop, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-88662-5
A tween struggles to adapt to his chronic illness as well as the arrival of a fantastical and unwelcome new roommate in Soren’s lively debut, which the author notes was inspired by his experience growing up with an invisible disability. When white-cued eight-year-old J.J. Sugar is diagnosed with Cro... Continue reading »
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