The ChildrenMelissa Albert. Morrow, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-348743-7
The 30-something daughter of a famous novelist looks back on her traumatic Vermont childhood in the eerie and assured adult debut from YA author Albert (The Hazel Wood). Guin and her older brother, Ennis, now an artist, spent six years in an old house in the woods after moving there from Ne... Continue reading »
An Artful DodgeKaren Odden. Soho Crime, $29.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-64129-762-2
This brilliant historical mystery from Odden (Under a Veiled Moon) follows 20-year-old British jewel thief Kit Jameson as she conducts what she hopes is her final heist. In 1879 London, Kit operates alongside an all-female band of burglars who swipe valuables from high-society targets. Kit’... Continue reading »
SublimationIsabel J. Kim. Tor, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-37679-4
Nebula Award winner Kim debuts with a strikingly original work of speculative fiction that brilliantly uses an audacious conceit—that immigration literally splits a person into two separate “instances” of themselves, one who moves to their new home and one who stays behind—to excavate questions of i... 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 »
Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket RegisterAnn Larson. One Signal, $29 (272p) ISBN 978-1-6680-9450-1
This illuminating debut chronicle turns Larson’s pandemic-era stint as a grocery worker into a rallying cry against corporate greed. In the fall of 2020, with her career prospects in teaching and journalism stalled, Larson took a cashier/supervisor job at TGS, a nonunion store in Utah, hoping it mig... 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 »
Fourteen Ways of Looking at JellyfishCarole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Candlewick, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3507-4
Boston Weatherford and Ibatoulline offer 14 different angles on jellyfish in this reverent, notebook-like assemblage of facts and appreciations. The creative team’s “ways of looking” range from literally peering at jellyfish in a creek to contemplating them through the eyes of a biologist who “saw h... Continue reading »
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