One Leg on Earth’Pemi Aguda. Norton, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-3240-6587-6
The marvelous debut novel from National Book Award finalist Aguda (Ghostroots, a story collection) follows a young woman whose arrival in Lagos for an exciting career opportunity coincides with a series of harrowing suicides by pregnant women. After graduating university, Yosoye Bakare, lan... Continue reading »
The Fervent WhitesDe’Shawn Charles Winslow. One World, $28 (208p) ISBN 978-0-593-97791-0
The Hudson Valley town of Fervent holds its breath when James and Ella White, convicted murderers who were released after a year and a half in prison when a different suspect confessed to the crime, return home in this profoundly moving mystery from Winslow (In West Mills). Even before thei... Continue reading »
Ignore All Previous InstructionsAda Hoffmann. Tachyon, $18.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-61696-456-6
Kelli Reynolds, the autistic heroine of this thrilling, prescient, and emotionally rich sci-fi adventure from Hoffmann (The Outside), is one of the few humans on Jupiter “talented enough to get a steady wage for the kind of work a machine couldn’t do.” She works as a script supervisor for a... Continue reading »
The Last Lady BEloisa James. Gallery, $19 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-6682-0005-6
Dripping with suspense and sensuality, this standalone Regency from bestseller James (the Accidental Brides series) proves she remains at the top of her game. Genevieve “Evie” Hughes marries the decades older, thrice-widowed Lord Burnsby, whom she believes to be kind and harmless, in exchange for hi... 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 »
Swirl & VortexLarry Levis, edited by David St. John. Graywolf, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-1-64445-371-1
This monumental volume of Levis’s collected works is a study in the development and deepening of his gifts, from his debut in 1972 to poems published following his death in 1996. Levis’s bruised, engrossing voice suggests the “long, volleying/ Echoes of billiards in the pool halls where/ I spent it ... 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 »
Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.Jonathan Vigliotti. One Signal, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-6682-1903-4
CBS News correspondent Vigliotti (Before It’s Gone) offers a riveting account of the 2025 Palisades fire and the shocking governmental failures that fueled it. The book opens a day into the disaster, with L.A. mayor Karen Bass and California governor Gavin Newsom apparently more concerned w... Continue reading »
My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched IslandAndre Fowles. Artisan, $35 (328) ISBN 978-1-64829-374-0
“I discovered food as a bridge to hope,” writes chef Fowles, three-time Chopped champion, in his bold and flavorful debut. In more than 100 recipes, the Kingston native pays homage to his island roots, drawing particular inspiration from his grandmother’s kitchen. The vibrant flavors of Jam... Continue reading »
We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American ChristianityKristin T. Lee. Broadleaf, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 979-8-88983-502-8
In her penetrating debut, physician Lee uses the Japanese art of kintsugi, the practice of mending broken pottery with gold lacquer, to illustrate how she repaired a faith fractured by a childhood steeped in Western theology. Lee grew up in an immigrant church in Iowa that practiced Chinese customs ... Continue reading »
The Great FrogKatie Palazzola. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5978-0
Two siblings make sense of a fragile world in an insightful picture book debut from Palazzola that’s set around a clutch of frogspawn. When Kit’s little brother Peedie pokes at a bunch of frog eggs, Kit (who “knew about science” and “about little brothers”) explains that they take the form of a blob... Continue reading »
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