PearlSiân Hughes. Indigo, $18.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-911648-52-9
In Welsh writer Hughes’s potent U.S. debut, a woman reckons with the effects of losing her mother as a child. Marianne’s mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving her, her baby brother Joe, and her father in their country house. Now, Marianne has a 13-year-old daughter, and she ruminates on her... Continue reading »
Ashes in the SnowOriana Ramunno, trans. from the Italian by Katherine Gregor. HarperVia, $18.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-333594-3
Ramunno’s debut novel is a wrenching murder mystery set in December 1943 at Auschwitz. Hugo Fischer, a criminologist at the Reich’s main security office in Berlin with a secret case of multiple sclerosis, has been sent to the camp to investigate the death of Dr. Sigismund Braun, who worked closely w... Continue reading »
We Are the CrisisCadwell Turnbull. Blackstone, $26.99 (322p) ISBN 978-1-982603-75-5
Following the events of Turnbull’s No Gods, No Monsters, the whole world knows about the existence of monsters. Now, in this powerful and intricate sequel, they’ve started going missing. Could these disappearances be related to the rise of antimonster hate group the Black Hand? Nonhierarchi... Continue reading »
The RoyalSusan Stoker. Montlake, $16.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-66250-966-7
In Young’s addictive, drama-filled follow-up to The Protector, former soldier and Prince of Liechtenstein Cal Redmon is conned into playing bodyguard to his cousin’s social climbing new girlfriend, Carla, when she falsely claims she has a stalker. The silver lining is that, due to this ruse... Continue reading »
The Super Hero’s JourneyPatrick McDonnell and Marvel Entertainment. Abrams ComicArts, $29.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6910-8
Syndicated cartoonist McDonnell (Mutts) celebrates in this joyous and invigorating blend of memoir and homage the Marvel Comics superhero saga, whose adventures have interconnected over the past 80+ years and formed a single, expansive fictional history. Opening with his childhood fascinati... Continue reading »
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream AgainA. Van Jordan. Norton, $26.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-324-05093-3
The bold and imaginative fifth collection from Van Jordan (The Cineaste) explores the Black experience, framed by the spectral presence of Black characters lifted from Shakespeare’s plays. The narrative is not a mere echo of Shakespeare’s tales, but a daring reinterpretation that chronicles... 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 »
America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the ConfederacyJeffrey O. G. Ogbar. Basic, $35 (544p) ISBN 978-1-541-60199-4
Historian Ogbar (Hip Hop Revolution) presents an illuminating and thought-provoking history of Atlanta from the 19th century to the present. Focusing on how, in spite of suppression by Georgia’s white nationalists and neo-Confederates, the city became a mecca for African Americans, Ogbar co... Continue reading »
Noon: Simple Recipes for Scrumptious Midday Meals and MoreMeike Peters. Chronicle, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-79722-280-6
“Lunchtime can easily be as exciting as dinner,” assures James Beard award winner Peters (Eat in My Kitchen) in this inspired collection of quick and delicious recipes. Pantry ingredients are the star of many of these simple yet vibrant meals: from a can of butter beans, Peters makes gnocch... Continue reading »
The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a DistanceShaul Magid. Ayin, $22.95 trade paper (318p) ISBN 979-8-9867803-1-3
Magid (Meir Kahane), a distinguished fellow of Jewish studies at Dartmouth, examines modern notions of Jewish “exile” in this unflinching analysis of “significant problems of the Jewish national project... both in the diaspora and in Israel.” According to the author, “exile” is a spiritual ... Continue reading »
The Spirit Bares Its TeethAndrew Joseph White. Peachtree Teen, $19.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-68263-611-4
Silas Bell—a transgender, autistic 16-year-old—has the violet eyes of a Speaker, mediums who can communicate across the Veil between the living and the dead. But to openly use his abilities, he must obtain a seal from the Royal Speaker Society, which has decreed, in the Speaker Act of 1841, that wom... Continue reading »
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