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The Generations Issue SPECIAL COVERAGE of WRITERS WHO ARE the VOICES of THEIR TIMES from the Editor’S Desk Featuring 419 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVII, NO. 3 | 1 FEBRUARY 2019 REVIEWS The Generations Issue SPECIAL COVERAGE OF WRITERS WHO ARE THE VOICES OF THEIR TIMES from the editor’s desk: Chairman The Generations Issue HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher BY CLAIBORNE SMITH MARC WINKELMAN # Chief Executive Officer MEG LABORDE KUEHN [email protected] Photo courtesy Michael Thad Carter courtesy Photo Editor-in-Chief I confess to an early—and strangely long-lived—confusion about what CLAIBORNE SMITH we even mean when we talk about a generation of people. Teachers would [email protected] Vice President of Marketing begin sentences with, “A generation ago…” and a teensy panic would roost SARAH KALINA [email protected] in my mind: How long, exactly, is a generation? As in, I had no idea. I asked, Managing/Nonfiction Editor ERIC LIEBETRAU but no one could answer that we more or less define a generation as 25 [email protected] Fiction Editor years. Social studies teachers in junior high taught me about baby boom- LAURIE MUCHNICK ers, but the people they were describing didn’t sound at all like my par- [email protected] Children’s Editor ents; my husband is a millennial, but he doesn’t like avocado toast, and he VICKY SMITH [email protected] doesn’t show up to work entitled and lazy, thankyouverymuch. The media Young Adult Editor Claiborne Smith LAURA SIMEON needs a shorthand for describing the general qualities of particular gen- [email protected] Staff Writer erations of people, but our shorthand often feels inaccurate, if not inept. Maybe being a part of MEGAN LABRISE Gen X has something to do with my bafflement; if there’s anything that defines Gen X, it’s one [email protected] Vice President of Kirkus Indie hefty, collective shoulder shrug about being typecast at all. KAREN SCHECHNER [email protected] In this issue, we get specific about the numerous meanings of generations. We interview Senior Indie Editor DAVID RAPP writers who are considered voices of their generations. Look in fiction for our interview with [email protected] Indie Editor cover writer Marlon James, whose fantasy novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, MYRA FORSBERG is one of this year’s most anticipated books. Our reporter Richard Z. [email protected] Indie Editorial Assistant Santos writes about James that “not many Booker Prize winners have KATERINA PAPPAS [email protected] written novels that feature witches, sorcerers, dirt mermaids, hyenas Editorial Assistant CHELSEA ENNEN that can transform into humans, relentless demons that emerge from [email protected] ceilings, a man who prefers to spend most of his time as a leopard, more Mysteries Editor THOMAS LEITCH spells and incantations than you can count, kingdoms built into Ent- Contributing Editor GREGORY McNAMEE sized trees, an actual visit to the land of the dead, a brilliant buffalo, and Copy Editor a giant man who hates to be called a giant…to name just a few wonders.” BETSY JUDKINS Designer In nonfiction, we talk to another voice of her generation, rapper and now ALEX HEAD published author Dessa. Director of Kirkus Editorial LAUREN BAILEY In the children’s section, we include a conversation between two generations of author/illus- [email protected] Production Editor trators, Donald Crews and his daughter Nina Crews, in which Nina tells us what it was like CATHERINE BRESNER [email protected] reading Donald’s crucial picture book (1978) to her son. Also in children’s, we ask Freight Train Creative Lead ARDEN PIACENZA Carlos Hernandez, the author of the middle-grade sci-fi novel Sal and Gabi Break the Universe [email protected] (Mar. 4), what it’s like to create a book that references past generations of writers while crafting Website and Software Developer PERCY PEREZ a narrative that’s ultramodern. In fiction, contributing editor Gregory McNamee recalls grow- [email protected] Advertising Director ing up in the generation that, when young, confronted Watergate and the Vietnam War and read MONIQUE STENSRUD [email protected] Herman Hesse as an act of defiance. “I find it hard, even groanworthy, to read much of him now,” Controller MICHELLE GONZALES Greg acknowledges. Our editors of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and young adult reviews are [email protected] parents, so they write in their columns about being professional readers who read to and with for customer service or subscription questions, their children. please call 1-800-316-9361 It’s been a pleasure going into the past and a little into the future this issue; I hope you have as much fun reading this issue as we’ve had creating it. Print indexes: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/print-indexes Submission Guidelines: www.kirkusreviews.com/about/submission-guidlines Kirkus Blog: www.kirkusreviews.com/blog Subscriptions: www.kirkusreviews.com/subscription Advertising Opportunities: www.kirkusreviews.com/about/advertising- Newsletters: www.kirkusreviews.com/subscription/newsletter/add Cover design by opportunities Arden Piacenza 2 | 1 february 2019 | from the editor’s desk | kirkus.com | you can now purchase books online at kirkus.com contents generations issue fiction young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ...........................................................4 INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS .......................................................168 REVIEWS ...............................................................................................4 REVIEWS ...........................................................................................168 EDITOR’S NOTE.....................................................................................6 EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................170 INTERVIEW: MARLON JAMES .........................................................14 INTERVIEW: M.E. KERR ...................................................................174 INTERVIEW: HERMAN HESSE ..........................................................18 INTERVIEW: NGOZI UZAKU ........................................................... 176 LIST: 5 CRUCIAL VOICES OF A GENERATION .............................. 26 INTERVIEW: GENGOROH TAGAME ............................................... 178 MYSTERY .............................................................................................44 LIST: 5 CRUCIAL VOICES OF A GENERATION .............................182 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ......................................................... 54 SHELF SPACE: COUNTRY BOOKSHELF ........................................184 ROMANCE ............................................................................................57 indie nonfiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................185 INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 60 REVIEWS ............................................................................................185 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 60 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................. 186 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................... 62 INTERVIEW: MIKE OMER ................................................................ 192 INTERVIEW: DESSA ...........................................................................66 FIELD NOTES.....................................................................................206 INTERVIEW: EDITH HALL ................................................................. 70 APPRECIATIONS: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS HITS INTERVIEW: CHERRÍE MORAGA ..................................................... 74 MIDDLE AGE ..................................................................................... 207 LIST: 5 CRUCIAL VOICES OF A GENERATION .............................. 86 children’s INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................110 REVIEWS ............................................................................................110 EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................112 INTERVIEW: DONALD & NINA CREWS ........................................ 116 INTERVIEW: LAURENCE YEP ......................................................... 120 INTERVIEW: CARLOS HERNANDEZ .............................................. 124 LIST: 5 CRUCIAL VOICES OF A GENERATION ............................. 132 EASTER AND PASSOVER PICTURE BOOKS ..................................164 Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson team up for an unforgettable tribute to the generational strength of the African-American people. Read the review on p. 110. | kirkus.com | contents | 1 february 2019 | 3 fiction These titles earned the Kirkus Star: AYA DANE Alaoui, Mhani Interlink (272 pp.) NAAMAH by Sarah Blake .....................................................................5 $15.00 paper | Mar. 19, 2019 978-1-62371-968-5 THE GULF by Belle Boggs ..................................................................... 6 THE LITTLE GIRL ON THE ICE FLOE by Adélaïde Bon ......................7 Aya Dane is a visual artist who has less than 40 days to create a masterwork GRIEVOUS by H.S. Cross ..................................................................... 9 that could solidify her legacy as a con- REVOLUTIONARIES by Joshua Furst .................................................15
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