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Elizabeth Gilbert Only As a Memoirist Featuring 333 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVII, NO. 11 | 1 JUNE 2019 REVIEWS There are still readers who know Elizabeth Gilbert only as a memoirist. Whatever Eat Pray Love did or did not do for you, her new novel, City of Girls, shouldn’t be missed. p. 14 from the editor’s desk: Chairman Excellent June Books 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 This Storm by James Ellroy (June 4): “Ellroy, master of California noir CLAIBORNE SMITH [email protected] (Perfidia, 2014, etc.), serves up a heaping helping of mayhem in this sec- Vice President of Marketing ond volume of his Second L.A. Quartet. 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LIFE AFTER DEATH WITH NEAL STEPHENSON ............................24 MYSTERY .............................................................................................44 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ......................................................... 52 ROMANCE ........................................................................................... 54 nonfiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ..........................................................57 REVIEWS ..............................................................................................57 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................... 58 WE GO UNDERGROUND WITH ROBERT MACFARLANE ..............72 10 GREAT SUMMER READS .............................................................. 76 DANIEL GUIET’S REAL-LIFE SPY STORY ........................................ 78 children’s INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS .........................................................88 REVIEWS .............................................................................................88 EDITOR’S NOTE...................................................................................90 RICHARD MAURER’S TARGET? THE MOON! ................................106 10 GREAT SUMMER READS .............................................................114 young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................ 135 REVIEWS ............................................................................................ 135 EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................136 MARGARET ROGERSON’S GREAT LIBRARY ................................140 Margarita Engle and Rafael López intro- 10 GREAT SUMMER READS ............................................................144 duce Teresa Carreño, a Venezuelan refugee SHELF SPACE: BUREAU OF GENERAL SERVICES—QUEER DIVISION ...........................................................................................149 and piano prodigy who played for Abraham indie Lincoln. Read the review on p. 98. INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................150 Don’t wait on the mail for reviews! You can read pre publication reviews as REVIEWS ............................................................................................150 - they are released on kirkus.com—even before they are published in the magazine. EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................152 You can also access the current issue and back issues of Kirkus Reviews on our INDIE Q&A: ADAM BENDER ............................................................162 website by logging in as a subscriber. If you do not have a username or password, please contact customer care to set up your account by calling 1.800.316.9361 or FIELD NOTES..................................................................................... 174 emailing [email protected]. APPRECIATIONS: TARA ROAD TURNS 30.....................................175 | kirkus.com | contents | 1 june 2019 | 3 fiction These titles earned the Kirkus Star: THE THIRD MRS. DURST Aguirre, Ann Midnight Ink/Llewellyn (312 pp.) WHISPER NETWORK by Chandler Baker ...........................................5 $24.99 | Aug. 8, 2019 978-0-7387-6131-2 LOST YOU by Haylen Beck ................................................................... 6 HUNTER’S MOON by Philip Caputo ..................................................11 A beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks marries into wealth—but SIDE CHICK NATION by Aya de León ................................................19 is her husband the dream that he seems? A GIRL RETURNED by Donatella Di Pietrantonio; Marlena Altizer grew up just one of trans. by Ann Goldstein ........................................................................23 a dozen siblings with a deadbeat mom in
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