Dream CountChimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-80272-4
Adichie (Americanah) returns to fiction after more than a decade with this superb tale of the fleeting joys and abiding disappointments of four African women on both sides of the Atlantic. It begins with Chiamaka, a Maryland-based travel writer from Nigeria who recounts her history of faile... Continue reading »
The Death of UsAbigail Dean. Viking, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-83113-7
A DIVORCED COUPLE reunites for the sentencing of the serial killer who shattered their lives in this moving literary thriller from bestseller Dean (Day One). Thirty years ago, the South London Invader broke into the home of playwright Isabel Nolan and her husband, lawyer George Hennessy. Th... Continue reading »
Notes from a RegicideIsaac Fellman. Tor, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-32910-3
Fellman (The Two Doctors Gorski) paints an intimate and vivid portrait of a queer family weathering a dystopian world in this triumphant sci-fi novel. Some thousand years in the future, New York City journalist Griffon Keming mourns his late adoptive parents, Zaffre and Etoine, who took him... Continue reading »
On Her TermsAmy Spalding. Kensington, $18.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-5115-7
The sparkling third installment in Spalding’s Out in Hollywood series (after At Her Service) features a newly single 30-something woman rediscovering herself. Clementine just left her boyfriend of nearly 20 years because he was ready for marriage and children and she doubts she ever will be... Continue reading »
Tongues, Vol. IAnders Nilsen. Pantheon, $35 (368p) ISBN 978-1-52474-720-6
Ignatz winner Nilsen (Big Questions) brings an ambitious postcolonialist perspective to the myth of Prometheus, projecting ancient strife among deities into present-day conflict in Central Asia. The plot centers on Astrid, a 13-year-old East African girl dragging a suitcase across the deser... Continue reading »
Shadow ReaderImtiaz Dharker. Bloodaxe, $18.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-78037-709-4
Dharker (Luck Is the Hook) combines her poetry and drawings to deliver an exquisite and complex vision of exile, immigration, and adopted homelands. The poems go beyond simple ekphrasis to consider the power dynamics of language and text; in one entry responding to a 19th-century sketch by ... 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 Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the WorldWilliam Dalrymple. Bloomsbury, $32.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-63973-414-6
Bestselling historian Dalrymple (The Anarchy) brings a lifetime of scholarship to bear on this magisterial and energetic account, which “aims to highlight India’s often forgotten position as a crucial economic fulcrum, and civilizational engine, at the heart of the ancient and early medieva... Continue reading »
A Short History of Black Craft in Ten ObjectsRobell Awake, illus. by Johnalynn Holland. Princeton Architectural, $24.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-7972-2854-9
Chairmaker Awake debuts with a wondrous celebration of how “Black people have resisted their erasure through craft” over the course of American history. Antebellum laws banning enslaved people from reading or writing led Black Americans to record their history in alternative ways, Awake explains, de... Continue reading »
Godstruck: Seven Women’s Unexpected Journeys to Religious ConversionKelsey Osgood. Viking, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-83467-1
In this illuminating account, memoirist Osgood (How to Disappear Completely) interweaves her own story with those of six other women who found religion in a rapidly secularizing society. All millennials currently in their 30s, Osgood’s subjects converted to faiths ranging from Mormonism to ... Continue reading »
Don’t Trust FishNeil Sharpson, illus. by Dan Santat. Dial, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-61667-3
This animal guidebook send-up starts innocently enough, with a portrait of a dairy cow alongside a simple description of mammalian characteristics: “This animal has fur. This animal is warm-blooded.” Entries for a reptile and bird follow before a page turn reveals an outsize fish. “This ... Continue reading »
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