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Bernardine Evaristo the Author of Girl, Woman, Other Reflects on Her Historic Booker Prize Win and Black Women’S Lives in Literature P Featuring 327 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVIII, NO. 1 | 1 JANUARY 2020 REVIEWS Bernardine Evaristo The author of Girl, Woman, Other reflects on her historic Booker Prize win and black women’s lives in literature p. 14 Also in the issue: David Zucchino, Tiffany Jewell, and Geraldine McCaughrean from the editor’s desk: New Year’s Reading Resolutions Chairman BY TOM BEER HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher MARC WINKELMAN John Paraskevas # It’s January—what are your reading resolutions? Chief Executive Officer As the New Year rolls around once more, it’s a good time to take stock of MEG LABORDE KUEHN your reading habits and set goals for the months to come. At the top of every- [email protected] Editor-in-Chief one’s list is to read more, of course—we all want to do that. (A few years ago, TOM BEER Connie Ogle at the Miami Herald offered “9 Ways to Read More Books,” and [email protected] Vice President of Marketing the advice—including the admonition to “step away from your phone”—is still SARAH KALINA solid: Google it.) [email protected] I have a few resolutions for 2020. This year, I’d like to read more interna- Managing/Nonfiction Editor ERIC LIEBETRAU tional work in translation. American readers are notoriously bad at this; accord- [email protected] ing to Chad W. Post, publisher of Open Letter Books, only about 3% of all books Fiction Editor LAURIE MUCHNICK published in the United States are translations (hence the name of the database [email protected] Tom Beer he started, Three Percent). In recent years I’ve read and enjoyed books by Juan Children’s Editor VICKY SMITH Gabriel Vásquez and Patrick Chamoiseau (not to mention Elena Ferrante!), but [email protected] I’m redoubling my efforts in 2020. Young Adult Editor I’m a die-hard reader of memoir, but I’m resolving to read more general nonfiction this year. One of LAURA SIMEON [email protected] my favorite books of 2019 was Patrick Radden Keefe’s masterful Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Editor at Large Mem ory in Northern Ireland, which reminded me that a well-reported work of narrative nonfiction is a MEGAN LABRISE uniquely satisfying reading experience. [email protected] Vice President of Kirkus Indie And in the wake of a year that contained excellent essays collections by Jia Tolentino, Lydia Davis, KAREN SCHECHNER and Emily Nussbaum, I resolve to read more essays. [email protected] Senior Indie Editor And now, a handful of books I resolve to tackle this year: DAVID RAPP How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish, [email protected] Indie Editor ed. by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert (Restless Books, Jan. 21): I saw Joel MYRA FORSBERG Grey’s Yiddish-language production of Fiddler on the Roof last fall and left [email protected] enchanted by the musical cadences of this tongue originally spoken by Associate Manager of Indie KATERINA PAPPAS the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern and Central Europe. This eclectic anthol- [email protected] ogy brings together fiction and nonfiction by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Emma Editorial Assistant JOHANNA ZWIRNER Goldman, Irving Howe, Grace Paley, and more, showing how Yiddish is an [email protected] inextricable part of American writing and culture. Our reviewer awarded it Mysteries Editor a star, calling it a “revelation” and a “treasure.” THOMAS LEITCH Contributing Editor The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam GREGORY McNAMEE Wasson (Flatiron, Feb. 4): I love a good Hollywood history, and this account Copy Editor of the making of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, which is also a portrait of BETSY JUDKINS Tinseltown on the cusp of enormous social and cultural changes, promises Designer to deliver the goods. (Wasson is the author of the knockout biography of ALEX HEAD Director of Kirkus Editorial Bob Fosse that was the basis for the recent FX series Fosse/Verdon.) Our reviewer calls it “good reading LAUREN BAILEY for any American cinema buff.” [email protected] Production Editor Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press, Feb. 11): I’m cheating here: I’ve already read this CATHERINE BRESNER astonishing debut novel about a dreamy Glasgow boy and his charismatic alcoholic mother. 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Kirkus gave his Advertising Associate TATIANA ARNOLD latest, about an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant evading the authorities in Australia, a starred [email protected] review, calling it “taut” and “well-crafted.” Advertising Coordinator Warhol by Blake Gopnik (Ecco, April 21): Andy Warhol is endlessly fascinating—a recent retrospec- KELSEY WILLIAMS [email protected] tive drew crowds at the Whitney Museum of American Art—and he’s one of the few artists whose life Graphic Designer and work could justify more than 900 pages. In a starred review, Kirkus calls Gopnik’s new biography LIANA WALKER “a fascinating, major work that will spark endless debates.” I’m ready. [email protected] Controller Happy New Year! Time to start reading. MICHELLE GONZALES [email protected] for customer service or subscription questions, please call 1 800 316 9361 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 photo by opportunities Jennie Scott 2 | 1 january 2020 | from the editor’s desk | kirkus.com | you can now purchase books online at kirkus.com contents fiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ...........................................................4 The Kirkus Star is awarded REVIEWS ...............................................................................................4 to books of remarkable EDITOR’S NOTE.....................................................................................6 ON THE COVER: BERNARDINE EVARISTO ..................................... 14 merit, as determined by the INTERVIEW: CRISSY VAN METER ...................................................24 impartial editors of Kirkus. MYSTERY ............................................................................................. 36 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ......................................................... 43 ROMANCE ........................................................................................... 45 nonfiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 47 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 47 EDITOR’S NOTE...................................................................................48 INTERVIEW: DAISY DUNN ................................................................62 INTERVIEW: DAVID ZUCCHINO ......................................................68 children’s INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 89 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 89 EDITOR’S NOTE...................................................................................90 INTERVIEW: RITA LORRAINE HUBBARD .....................................106 INTERVIEW: TIFFANY JEWELL ......................................................110 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH PICTURE BOOKS ...........................123 young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................136 REVIEWS ............................................................................................136 EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................138 INTERVIEW: GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN .................................142 INTERVIEW: REGINA HAYES ........................................................ 146 Former Washington Post chief art critic Blake SHELF SPACE: VERMONT BOOK SHOP ........................................152 Gopnik delivers an epic cradle-to-grave indie biography of the king of pop art. Read the INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................153 review on p.65. REVIEWS ............................................................................................153 EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................154 Don’t wait on the mail for reviews! You can read pre-publication reviews as they are released on kirkus.com—even before they are published in the magazine. .................................................................... 160 INTERVIEW: IJEN KIM You can also access the current issue and back issues of Kirkus Reviews on our SEEN & HEARD ................................................................................. 174 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
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