Sing to MeJesse Browner. Little, Brown, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-58123-3
Browner (Everything Happens Today) portrays the Trojan War from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy in this stirring novel. Hani is left alone in his home village, his brothers having joined the fighting in Troy followed by their father, who brought along Hani’s younger sister, Arinna, in... Continue reading »
SummerhouseYiğit Karaahmet, trans. from Turkish by Nicholas Glastonbury. Soho Crime, $28.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64129-586-4
Though it takes the form of a crime novel, Laraahmet’s melancholy English debut is, at its core, a story about the contours of long-haul monogamy and the difficulties of being gay in a conservative community. Obsessive pianist Şener and his translator husband, Fehmi, have planned a quiet summer in B... Continue reading »
House of Frost and FeathersLauren Wiesebron. Harper Voyager, $19.99 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-337149-1
Wiesebron debuts with a remarkable high fantasy as thoroughly Slavic and delightfully alive as the building that lends it its name, an orange-shingled house on chicken legs. When orphaned Marisha comes upon the house in the Severny city square, it can only mean the koldun, or witch, Baba Zima is in ... Continue reading »
BehoovedM. Stevenson. Bramble, $19.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-37508-7
Stevenson’s wonderfully whimsical romantasy debut takes readers on an entertaining ride through a fairy tale–inspired fantasy land. As the “flower of Demaria,” 25-year-old Bianca was raised to value duty above everything else and has been expected to compensate for her hobbling gastrointestinal cond... Continue reading »
Gilt FrameMatt Kindt and Margie Kraft Kindt. Dark Horse, $29.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-5067-4594-7
Harvey award winner Kindt (the Mind MGMT series) collaborates with his mother, Margie Kraft Kindt, on this charming cozy whodunit that builds an intricate case around the murder of a Parisian antiques dealer. Amateur sleuths Meredith “Merry” Pearson and her nephew Sam have a knack for stumbling onto... Continue reading »
Viscera: Eight Voices from PolandEdited by Mark Tardi, trans. from the Polish by Malgorzata Myk et al. Litmus, $22 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-933959-83-2
This luminous bilingual anthology features eight contemporary women poets from Poland: Anna Adamowicz, Maria Cyranowicz, Hanna Janczak, Natalia Malek, Joanna Oparek, Zofia Skrzypulec, Katarzyna Szaulińska, and Ilona Witkowska. The opening “Cantata” section presents selections from each, displaying t... 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 »
On OilDon Gillmor. Biblioasis, $15.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-77196-667-2
Journalist and novelist Gillmor (Canada) offers a stinging critique of the oil industry. Focusing on the U.S. and Canada, particularly Alberta, where he held several summer jobs on oil rigs and later covered the oil sands as a reporter, Gillmor balances his own recollections with a broader ... Continue reading »
Fat + Flour: The Art of a Simple BakeNicole Rucker. Knopf, $35.00 (224) ISBN 978-0-593-80178-9
Rucker (Dappled) serves up a droolworthy “celebration of the unadorned joy that mixing these two simple ingredients together can bring.” Her innovative, fuss-free approach to baking relies on the cold butter method, a vintage “reverse creaming method” wherein butter is mixed directly into t... Continue reading »
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the PresentJohn Tolan. Princeton Univ, $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-69126-353-3
Historian Tolan (Faces of Muhammad) traces in this vibrant and sweeping survey the 1,400-year evolution of Islam. Stressing Islam’s conceptual unity (“we are one umma”) and diverse reality, he tells its history by stitching together the stories of key figures. Among them are Um Waraqa, a wo... Continue reading »
New Shoes for LeoLauren Agra Deedy, illus. by Susan Gal. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-3387-7021-6
In this jubilant, dialogue-driven story with a “Cinderella”-like arc, a child seeks to help family by searching for a much-needed item. Every month, William watches as Mami and Tía Ana bring home goods to mail from the U.S. to relatives in Cuba. Eager to help, William is tasked to find “zapa... Continue reading »
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