Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!
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Rounding out the end of the month with some long-awaited arrivals: namely, Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli finally hits the shelves. We also have a riveting and raw memoir by Emilee Hackney, and a horrifying “scenario” by Annie Jacobsen.
Rounding out the end of the month with some long-awaited arrivals: namely, Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli finally hits the shelves. We also have a riveting and raw memoir by Emilee Hackney, and a horrifying “scenario” by Annie Jacobsen. There’s something for everybody in this pile: read on for the full list, and have a great end of July!
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Valeria Luiselli, Beginning Middle End
(Knopf)
“Luiselli’s prose is elegant as ever, she handles difficult themes with grace, and the two main characters prove to be unforgettable.”
, Los Angeles Times
Emilee Hackney, All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
(Penguin Press)
“This heartfelt missive successfully humanizes hot-button subjects.”
, Publishers Weekly
Annie Jacobsen, Biological War: A Scenario
(Dutton)
The most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.”
, From the publisher
Marta Pérez-Carbonell, I Made You Up Inside My Head
(Riverhead)
“A tremendous novel with a cool and engrossing narrative voice that resonates with memorable intensity and effect.”
, William Boyd
Greg Doran, Walking Shadow: Love, Loss, and Shakespeare
(Bloomsbury)
“A human story about how grief over loss of a loved one can be turned into a seemingly impossible quest and a search for consoling hope.”
, The Guardian
Lizzie Buehler, The Obsessed
(Putnam)
“A thought-provoking meditation on romantic love, parasocial relationships, and academia.”
, The Millions
Micki McElya, Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women’s Movement and the Future of American Politics
(Avid Reader Press)
“A wide-ranging, comprehensive cultural history.”
, Kirkus
César Aira, tr. Chris Andrews, Five
(New Directions)
“A lampoon of our need for narrative. No one today does metafiction like Aira.”
, The Paris Review
Cal Flyn, The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness
(Viking)
“Her research is phenomenal, and she writes compellingly of the history of the places she visits.”
, The Spectator
Rashad Robinson, From Presence to Power: How to Take on the Fights That Matter, And Win
(One World)
“As someone who has been involved in activism a good part of my life, he gave me a new way of thinking about the difference between visibility and power.”
, Jane Fonda
María Elena Morán, trans. by Madeline Jones, The Winds of Maracaibo
(Knopf)
“A novel that upends preconceived notions about the crisis in Venezuela, northbound migration, and limbos both bureaucratic and spiritual.”
, Darrow Farr
H. Keith Melton and Nigel West, The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Espionage, Scandal, and the Crime of the Century
(Hanover Square Press)
“West and Melton deliver a brilliant historical thriller on the most consequential and highest profile of Stalin’s multitude of targeted political assassinations.”
, Daniel O. Hoffman
Sarai Walker, Furious Violet
(Harper)
“An impeccably plotted, Hitchcock-by-way-of-Plath novel that barrels toward its thrilling conclusion with equal parts suspense and intellect.”
, Teddy Wayne
Morgana Kretzmann, trans. by Daniel Hahn, The Red Earth
(HarperVia)
“Three women find themselves caught in the crossfire in this pulse-pounding saga of a Brazilian community in crisis and the environmental tragedy that threatens to engulf it.”
, From the publisher
Anja Zimmermann, tr. Nicola Barfoot, The Breast: A Cultural and Political History
(Polity Press)
“Finally, a book about the unsettling and even revolutionary potential of the female breast.”
, Mithu M. Sanyal
Nadia Hashimi, City of Widows
(William Morrow)
“Hashimi weaves together two equally engrossing stories in her epic, spellbinding debut.”
, Booklist
D.K. Furutani, When Mikan Road Was Ours
(Atria)
“As much of a strong work of historical fiction as a social commentary on the human race, this debut proves that Furutani is a writer to watch.”
, Library Journal
Jan Carson, Few and Far Between
(Scribner)
“Carson portrays her eerie setting with deep intelligence and gritty realism. This is indelible.”
, Publishers Weekly
Evann Normandin, The Good Parts
(Grand Central)
“I loved The Good Parts. Loved the way I knew something life-altering was coming, yet it kept me guessing.”
, Jodi Picoult