I Am the Ghost Here: StoriesKim Samek. Dial, $28 (224p) ISBN 979-8-217-15357-2
Samek debuts with a striking collection of fantastical and speculative stories about conformity, technology, and the limits of bodily autonomy. The unnamed narrator of the title entry, a Thai woman who works at a hair salon, learns that her older brother, Jeff, a Stanford graduate and tech entrepren... Continue reading »
Ruby FallsGin Phillips. Atlantic Crime, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6692-0
Phillips (Family Law) puts a fresh twist on the locked-room mystery with this harrowing historical set in the mountains near Chattanooga, Tenn. When mine worker Leo Lambert discovers an astonishing 15-story underground waterfall in the 1920s, he names it Ruby Falls, after his wife, and turn... Continue reading »
Boy, with Accidental DinosaurIan McDonald. Tordotcom, $17.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-250-41953-8
Bejeweled, dinosaur-riding buckaroos are the stars of the show in this equal-parts rollicking and poignant sci-fi novella from Hugo Award winner McDonald (The Wildling). Latif “Tif” Tamim loses his job as a wrangler at the dinosaur rodeo Dino!Dino! when he accidentally lets a Timursaur loos... Continue reading »
Get Over It, April EvansAshley Herring Blake. Berkley, $19 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-81601-1
Blake’s endearing and believable second Clover Lake romance (after Dream On, Ramona Riley) puts the enemies-to-lovers and forced proximity tropes to excellent use. April Evans is still reeling from the betrayal of her cheating ex-fiancee, Elena Watson, who left her for beautiful younger art... Continue reading »
Joe the Pirate: The Life and Times of Marion Barbara CarstairsHubert and Virginie Augustin, trans. from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger. Iron Circus, $18 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-63899-157-1
Outrageous queer socialite and boat racer Marion Barbara “Joe” Carstairs (1900–1993) roars to life in this fearless and seductive graphic biography from late Angouleme winner Hubert, creator of Darkly She Goes, and animator Augustin. “I came out of the womb queer,” proclaims Carstairs, who ... Continue reading »
Only SingJohn Berryman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-61794-3
This brilliant collection of previously unpublished poems from Berryman’s Dream Songs cycle is proof, as Shane McCrae writes in the introduction, that he “understood his epic to be complete, but he did not believe that its completeness could have only one form.” For McCrae, Henry—Berryman’s alter-eg... 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 »
Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in HistoryHelen Zoe Veit. St. Martin’s, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-40250-9
The picky eating habits of contemporary U.S. children were far from inevitable, according to this enlightening study from historian Veit (Modern Food, Moral Food). For much of history, children had the same varied diets as adults, she explains, detailing how 19th-century kids happily gobble... Continue reading »
Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and BeyondPadma Lakshmi. Knopf, $40 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-53532-5
Taste the Nation host Lakshmi (Love, Loss, and What We Ate) uses this gorgeous compendium of recipes collected during her travels across the U.S. to craft a “love letter” to “all [the] immigrants who have made a life here and, in turn, made America what it is.” An extensive introdu... Continue reading »
Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken WorldEdited by Rose Marie Berger. Broadleaf, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 979-8-88983-541-7
These stimulating essays and interviews from the first 50 years of Sojourners magazine, collected by poetry editor Berger (Who Killed Donte Manning?), seek “sabbath rest, contemplation, solitude, simplicity, and communal resilience” in today’s world. Franciscan priest Richard Rohr ... Continue reading »
The Curious Life of Cecilia Payne: Discovering the Stuff of StarsLaura Alary, illus. by Yas Imamura. Eerdmans, $19.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5515-2
Boundary-defying astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne (1900–1979) stars in this even-handed picture book biography. Early scenes highlight how a childhood spent immersed in the outdoors gives Payne the opportunity to hone her observational skills and learn to “always trust what she knew w... Continue reading »
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