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Pola Oloixarac Featuring 343 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA Books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVII, NO. 7 | 1 APRIL 2019 REVIEWS THE REBEL ISSUE Special Coverage of Writers and Characters Who Break All the Rules from the editor’s desk: Chairman The Rebel 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 When the idea emerged to devote a special issue of coverage to writers Editor-in-Chief CLAIBORNE SMITH whom we consider literary rebels, or who love writing books about rebellious [email protected] Vice President of Marketing characters (like the trailblazing motorcyclist Bessie Stringfied on our cover), SARAH KALINA the first thing I thought to ask wasn’t which writers we should feature in this [email protected] Managing/Nonfiction Editor issue but whether there are any writer rebels left. The “rebel writer” short- ERIC LIEBETRAU [email protected] hand, at least in America, leads us to think of Jack Kerouac, for example; the Fiction Editor LAURIE MUCHNICK account of how he wrote On the Road in a three-week jag is alluring: a mix of [email protected] Children’s Editor desperation and rugged inspiration. It’s a heady story. Also, it’s not true. VICKY SMITH Most innovative writers don’t foster such compelling origin myths [email protected] Claiborne Smith Young Adult Editor about themselves or their books; they think and write something original LAURA SIMEON [email protected] and against the grain of the times in which they publish, and maybe readers and critics pick up Editor at Large MEGAN LABRISE on it, or maybe they don’t. The days when Allen Ginsberg could be rebellious by doing drugs and [email protected] Vice President of Kirkus Indie generally being a hell-raiser feel quaint. So, are there literary rebels nowadays? Of course there KAREN SCHECHNER are; but you have to work harder to find them because they’re usually not so obvious about it. [email protected] Senior Indie Editor In the fiction section, we talk to Argentinean writer Pola Oloixarac. As staff writer Megan DAVID RAPP [email protected] Labrise writes in her interview with Oloixarac, “When Insinger Helena courtesy Photo Indie Editor MYRA FORSBERG Pola Oloixarac’s debut novel, Las teorías salvajes (Sav­ [email protected] Indie Editorial Assistant age Theories), was published in Spanish in 2010, the KATERINA PAPPAS response from certain critics was brutal. Who did she [email protected] Editorial Assistant think she was to write so ambitiously, incisively, satiri- CHELSEA ENNEN [email protected] cally about Argentine academia? She should deliver Mysteries Editor something more suitably feminine in the future.” Her THOMAS LEITCH Contributing Editor new novel, Dark Constellations, is out from Soho Press GREGORY McNAMEE Copy Editor on April 16. The book moves from the story of a 19th- Pola Oloixarac BETSY JUDKINS century botanist researching a supposedly hallucino- Designer ALEX HEAD genic plant to 2024, when people are surveilled to an extreme degree. Fiction, Oloixarac tells us, Director of Kirkus Editorial LAUREN BAILEY is “the spaceship to escape condescension, decency and society, and fear.” [email protected] Production Editor In nonfiction, Kembrew McLeod, the author of The Downtown Pop Underground: New York CATHERINE BRESNER [email protected] City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Play wrights, and Rock ’n’ Roll Creative Lead (2018), says that “even punk has been told as a story of ARDEN PIACENZA Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture [email protected] angry, mostly white boys. My book tries to show that punk was more complicated and inclusive Website and Software Developer PERCY PEREZ of gay men and women and of trans people.” [email protected] And in the children’s section, Joel Christian Gill, the writer and illustrator of Advertising Director Fast Enough: Bes­ MONIQUE STENSRUD sie Stringfield’s First Ride, tells us that Stringfield, who became known in the early 20th century [email protected] Controller as the “Negro Motorcycle Queen” “was just a badass in general. And when I did the research, I MICHELLE GONZALES [email protected] found this 5-foot-2 black woman who completely just destroyed the gender and racial norms of for customer service or subscription questions, the time and just rode her motorcycle wherever she wanted to go all over the United States…. please call 1-800-316-9361 Why are we not spending more time talking about her?” This issue is full of revelations about rebels you may or may not have heard about; I hope you enjoy reading it. Cover photo courtesy Harley Davidson Museum https://www.harley-davidson.com/ us/en/museum.html 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 april 2019 | from the editor’s desk | kirkus.com | you can now purchase books online at kirkus.com contents the rebel issue fiction young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ...........................................................4 INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS .......................................................146 REVIEWS ...............................................................................................4 REVIEWS ...........................................................................................146 EDITOR’S NOTE.....................................................................................6 EDITOR’S NOTE.................................................................................148 INTERVIEW: POLA OLOIXARAC ......................................................12 INTERVIEW: TEHLOR KAY MEJIA ...................................................152 INTERVIEW: HELEN HOANG ............................................................16 INTERVIEW: DAVID ELLIOTT ...........................................................154 INTERVIEW: T.C. BOYLE ...................................................................20 INTERVIEW: KIP WILSON ............................................................... 156 LIST: 5 BOOKS THAT BREAK ALL THE RULES ............................... 28 LIST: 5 BOOKS THAT BREAK ALL THE RULES ..............................160 MYSTERY .............................................................................................49 SHELF SPACE: COPPERFIELD’S .....................................................164 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ......................................................... 59 indie ROMANCE ........................................................................................... 63 INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................165 nonfiction REVIEWS ............................................................................................165 INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS .........................................................66 EDITOR’S NOTE.................................................................................166 REVIEWS .............................................................................................66 INTERVIEW: TIANA WARNER .........................................................172 EDITOR’S NOTE...................................................................................68 FIELD NOTES.....................................................................................186 INTERVIEW: BRET EASTON ELLIS ....................................................72 APPRECIATIONS: A HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY INTERVIEW: KEMBREW MCLEOD ................................................... 76 TURNS 40 .......................................................................................... 187 LIST: 5 BOOKS THAT BREAK ALL THE RULES ............................... 92 children’s A gripping, well- INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS .........................................................99 crafted account of Ruth Bader REVIEWS .............................................................................................99 Ginsburg’s EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................. 102 remarkable life and INTERVIEW: JORGE & MEGAN LACERA ...................................... 106 career by Victoria Ortiz. Read the INTERVIEW: KATHLEEN CORNELL BERMAN & KEITH HENRY BROWN .....................................................................110 review on p. 158. INTERVIEW: JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL ..............................................114 LIST: 5 BOOKS THAT BREAK ALL THE RULES ..............................122 MOTHER’S DAY & FATHER’S DAY PICTURE BOOKS ....................139 | kirkus.com | contents | 1 april 2019 | 3 fiction These titles earned the Kirkus Star: THE PAPER WASP Acampora, Lauren Grove (304 pp.) THE PAPER WASP by Lauren Acampora ............................................ 4 $26.00 | Jun. 11, 2019 978-0-8021-2941-3 WHERE WE COME FROM by Oscar Cásares .....................................10 PATSY by Nicole Dennis­Benn ............................................................18 In this thrilling debut novel, a young woman with big but unfocused ambi- THIS STORM by James Ellroy .............................................................21 tions moves
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