Beyond the Glittering WorldEdited by Stacie Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger. Torrey House, $18.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 979-8-89092-030-0
This beautiful anthology of poetry and prose by contemporary Native American writers includes traditional motifs along with works of stark feminism and hopeful futurism. The poem “The Rhythm of Becoming” by Dominique Daye Hunter evokes the cadence of oral storytelling (one quatrain begins, “Ni:ska l... Continue reading »
The Writing in the WaterJohn Ajvide Lindqvist, trans. from the Swedish by Michael Meigs. Amazon Crossing, $16.99 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-1-6625-2504-9
Lindqvist (Let the Right One In) pokes fun at the publishing industry in this offbeat series launch that teams cop-turned-author Julia Malmros with expert hacker Kim Ribbing. Malmros has had commercial and critical success writing novels featuring detective sergeant Åsa Fors, which brings h... 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 Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of GriefCarol Tyler. Fantagraphics, $39.99 (232p) ISBN 979-8-8750-0143-7
In this intricate, wildly inventive graphic memoir from Eisner nominee Tyler (Soldier’s Heart), grief is a physical place populated by odd but helpful guides. Carol is hit by an “anvil of sorrow” when her mother, sister, and multiple friends die in quick succession, and she enters a “long r... 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 »
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New WorldJohn Blair. Princeton Univ, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-691-22479-4
In this expansive volume, archaeologist Blair (Building Anglo-Saxon England) surveys stories of corpses rising from the dead, from classical Greece to the “corpse killing” epidemics of the 17th century. Premodern people, he writes, viewed death as a process that began with the “cessation of... 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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