When the Harvest ComesDenne Michele Norris. Random House, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-72960-1
In Norris’s gorgeous debut, a queer couple navigate their differences after an unexpected loss. Femme violist Davis Freeman, who is Black, is set to marry sturdy bisexual Everett Caldwell in the Caldwells’ Montauk beach house. Davis has never felt at ease among Everett’s white family, who are boiste... Continue reading »
The Mystery of the Crooked ManTom Spencer. Pushkin Vertigo, $18.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-80533-512-2
Spencer, a pseudonym for journalist Tom Perrin (The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction), serves up an affectionate homage to Agatha Christie that seamlessly blends satire and fair-play mystery. Crotchety archivist Agatha Dorn is an expert on Gladden Green, author of a bestselling mystery seri... Continue reading »
Eat the Ones You LoveSarah Maria Griffin. Tor, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-91069-1
At the start of this heartrending gothic horror story from Griffin (Other Words for Smoke), Michelle “Shell” Pine has just lost her job, broken up with her fiancé, and moved back into the jumble of her parents’ house in the Dublin suburbs. She needs a win and jumps on the first opportunity ... Continue reading »
Dream On, Ramona RileyAshley Herring Blake. Berkley, $19 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-81599-1
Blake (Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date) enchants with this sapphic second-chance romance. At 13, Ramona Riley and Dylan Monroe had an adorable meet cute that ended with a life-altering kiss. Eighteen years later, the two are unexpectedly reacquainted in Clover Lake, N.H. Waitress Ramona feels trapp... Continue reading »
Tongues, Vol. IAnders Nilsen. Pantheon, $35 (368p) ISBN 978-1-52474-720-6
Ignatz winner Nilsen (Big Questions) brings an ambitious postcolonialist perspective to the myth of Prometheus, projecting ancient strife among deities into present-day conflict in Central Asia. The plot centers on Astrid, a 13-year-old East African girl dragging a suitcase across the deser... Continue reading »
Shadow ReaderImtiaz Dharker. Bloodaxe, $18.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-78037-709-4
Dharker (Luck Is the Hook) combines her poetry and drawings to deliver an exquisite and complex vision of exile, immigration, and adopted homelands. The poems go beyond simple ekphrasis to consider the power dynamics of language and text; in one entry responding to a 19th-century sketch by ... 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 »
Authority: EssaysAndrea Long Chu. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-60033-4
This brilliant collection from Chu (Females) showcases the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s reflections on literature, television, and the art of criticism. Reviewing novels by some of contemporary literature’s biggest names, Chu dismisses Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise as a “book i... Continue reading »
Two Chefs in the Garden: Over 150 Garden-inspired Vegetarian RecipesLynn Crawford and Lora Kirk. Penguin Canada, $35 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7352-4562-4
Crawford and Kirk, former co-owners of Toronto’s Ruby Watchco, team up to bring farm-to-table cuisine to family meals in their appealing debut. Inspired by seasonal produce from their personal gardens and the desire to encourage folks to eat more vegetables, they provide an innovative cornucopia of ... Continue reading »
Godstruck: Seven Women’s Unexpected Journeys to Religious ConversionKelsey Osgood. Viking, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-83467-1
In this illuminating account, memoirist Osgood (How to Disappear Completely) interweaves her own story with those of six other women who found religion in a rapidly secularizing society. All millennials currently in their 30s, Osgood’s subjects converted to faiths ranging from Mormonism to ... Continue reading »
Raised by GhostsBriana Loewinsohn. Fantagraphics, $18.99 paper (224p) ISBN 979-8-8750-0050-8
Decades-old notes—jotted on age-spotted, torn scraps of lined notebook paper—stitch together a wistful search for connection and acceptance in this aching semi-autobiographical comic by Loewinsohn (Ephemera). Growing up in 1990s El Cerrito, Calif., middle school–aged Loewinsohn is “estrange... Continue reading »
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