CoyotelandVanessa Hua. Flatiron, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-39551-1
A real estate feud drives this riveting novel from Hua (Forbidden City). Jin Chang moves his family into an exclusive Bay Area enclave with plans to flip their new house. He immediately butts heads with his busybody neighbor, Blair Belle, a tech worker whose company makes a camera called an... Continue reading »
BackstabbersEliza Jabore. Bantam, $30 (320p) ISBN 979-8-217-09536-0
In Jabore’s exceptional debut, friends Jade Edelman, Zoe Burroughs, and Stefanie Alcott hike the infamous Bones Hollow Trail in Olympic National Park, shadowed by the legend of the Bones Hollow Hunter, a serial killer who terrorized the trail in recent years. True crime–obsessed Zoe and easygoing St... Continue reading »
AbsenceAndrew Dana Hudson. Soho, $29 (448p) ISBN 9781641297585
Hudson (Our Shared Storm) gives a skillful metaphysical twist to a tale of apocalyptic horror in this strikingly original novel. Its setting is a near-future America devastated by “popping,” a phenomenon that sees individuals unexpectedly vanish from existence, their sudden disappearance pu... Continue reading »
Romantic HeroKirsty Greenwood. Berkley, $19 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-81615-8
A touch of interdimensional magic sets the stage for this fun and heartfelt rom-rom from Greenwood (The Love of My After Life). London-based romance novelist Gertie Bickerstaff is too brokenhearted after her boyfriend leaves her to finish writing the final book in her Bedlam Creek Ranch ser... Continue reading »
The WoodchipperJoe Ollmann. Drawn & Quarterly, $25 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-77046-823-8
Nothing comes easy for the denizens of Hamilton, Ontario, in these wry, bruising, and mordantly funny stories from Ollmann (Fictional Father). In “Nestled All Snug,” a toppled pile of boxes traps a bookstore employee in a dingy staff bathroom. In “Meat,” a security guard at a meat-packing f... Continue reading »
VisitationsJulia Alvarez. Knopf, $27 (112p) ISBN 978-0-593-80503-9
In her prismatic fourth collection, novelist, memoirist, and poet Alvarez (The Woman I Kept to Myself) spins richly detailed micro-narratives of her childhood in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s, her young adulthood in New York City, and beyond. Vivid scenes include reciting poems for he... 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 »
Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System’s Last HurrahThomas Schatz. Univ. of California, $32.95 (552p) ISBN 978-0-520-41580-5
In this smart, well-researched history, film scholar Schatz (The Genius of the System) explores what he calls the “conglomerate era” of Hollywood, the period between 1989 and 2004 when a series of mergers and acquisitions between media companies resulted in films with a “sustained level of ... Continue reading »
The Caribbean CookbookRawlston Williams. Phaidon, $54.95 (432) ISBN 978-1-83729-172-4
Williams, the chef behind Brooklyn’s The Food Sermon, debuts with a vibrant and impressively comprehensive collection of more than 350 recipes for Caribbean fare, drawn from 28 countries. “Local food tells the story of our history, our people, and our shared heritage,” the St. Vincent native writes.... Continue reading »
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American RevolutionSarah M.S. Pearsall. Doubleday, $35 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-54871-7
This sprawling, immersive account from historian Pearsall (Atlantic Families) explores “the effect of the world on the American Revolution” rather than the “too often” emphasized opposite. The book opens with a reflection on colonial militiamen’s powder horns, which were typically carved wi... Continue reading »
Incredibly Fast and Not at All FunTadgh Bentley. Atheneum, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-66597-140-9
Bentley takes readers on a thrilling, alliterative ride in this dryly comedic story about a reticent bear who becomes the unwitting inventor of the world’s first roller coaster. Seeking an efficient, crowd-avoiding route from his cliffside home to his beehives on the other side of the valley, Bear c... Continue reading »
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