Flat EarthAnika Jade Levy. Catapult, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64622-281-0
Levy debuts with a darkly funny work of hyperrealism about a broke New York City grad student on a self-destructive path as “right-wing nutrition fads fall into fashion” and the government moves to “legalize crime completely.” Avery, 26, is having trouble making sense of it all, at least for the man... Continue reading »
The Red Scare MurdersCon Lehane. Soho Crime, $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-64129-720-2
Lehane (Murder at the College Library) delivers a gratifying old-school PI novel set in the thick of the McCarthy era. WWII veteran Mick Mulligan had it all—a successful career as a Hollywood cartoonist, a comfortable salary, a lovely family—until he was blacklisted by the House Un-American... Continue reading »
The Night Is Not for YouEman Quotah. Run for It, $18.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-59581-0
This wonderfully chilling and entirely immersive feminist horror story from Quotah (Bride of the Sea) opens with seven-year-old Layla, who dreams of owning a donkey. Readers follow Layla as she grows up and her innocence is shattered by a string of murders that upend her small town over and... Continue reading »
Lady LikeMackenzie Lee. Dial, $18 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-73060-7
Marriage comes with extremely high stakes for the sapphic heroines of this riotously entertaining Regency, the adult debut from bestselling YA author Lee (A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue). For Emily Sergeant, whose reputation has been tarnished by scandal in her small hometown, findi... Continue reading »
The WeightMelissa Mendes. Drawn & Quarterly, $29.95 (580p) ISBN 978-1-77046-716-3
Ignatz nominee Mendes (Freddy Stories) delivers a gut punch of a family saga that finds moments of hardscrabble transcendence in the Depression-era dairy fields of America’s Northeast. The Catheresque story follows headstrong Edie from a tomboyish childhood on the outskirts of a U.S. Air Fo... Continue reading »
Death of the First IdeaRickey Laurentiis. Knopf, $27 (160p) ISBN 978-0-593-80270-0
Laurentiis’s visionary sophomore outing (after Boy with Thorn) showcases her incredible lyric range and incisive commentary. At its core, the collection charts a 10-year period from 2015 to 2025 chronicling the speaker’s gender transition; along the way, the poems address the speaker’s poli... 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 »
The Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place Nobody’s Ever Heard ofPatrick Wensink. Belt, $19.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-5402-7010-8
Novelist Wensink (Broken Piano for President) presents a charming, idiosyncratic love letter to his native Ohio. He hails from the state’s rural northwest, a land “so empty... that even other Ohioans” consider it “something like narcolepsy in geographic form.” In August 2014, the environmen... Continue reading »
Sally’s Baking 101: Foolproof Recipes from Easy to AdvancedSally McKenney. Clarkson Potter, $32.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-58196-4
Sally’s Baking Addiction blogger McKenney debuts with a mouthwatering compendium of new and “fan favorite” recipes. A thorough introduction covers ingredients, tools, and handy tips, including the best methods for melting chocolate and measuring dry ingredients. Cookies range from the class... Continue reading »
Beard: A Memoir of a MarriageKelly Foster Lundquist. Eerdmans, $28.99 (250p) ISBN 978-0-80288-473-2
Lundquist, an English professor at North Hennepin Community College in Minnesota, debuts with a wrenching account of the breakup of her marriage to a gay man. Lundquist met her future husband in the late 1990s at a Christian camp, where the two bonded over their love of TV soaps and off-kilter humor... Continue reading »
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto AlvarezMaría Dolores Águila. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-34261-4
In this empowering verse novel, Águila (Menudo Sunday) fictionalizes the history of the 1930–1931 court case Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District—known as the Lemon Grove Incident—as seen through the eyes of Mexican American middle schooler R... Continue reading »
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