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Namwali Serpell's Featuring 362 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA Books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVII, NO. 6 | 15 MARCH 2019 REVIEWS Namwali Serpell’s magical realist epic, The Old Drift, will inevitably be compared with One Hundred Years of Solitude. But this novel’s generous spirit, sensory richness, and visionary heft make it almost unique among magical realist epics. p. 14 from the editor’s desk: Chairman Excellent March 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 Fall Back Down When I Die by Joe Wilkins (March 12): “A heart-rend- CLAIBORNE SMITH ing tale of family, love, and violence in which the ‘failures of the nation, [email protected] Vice President of Marketing the failures of myth, met the failures of men.’ Poet Wilkins’ ( SARAH KALINA When We [email protected] Were Birds, 2016, etc.) politically charged first novel, a ‘sad riddle of a Managing/Nonfiction Editor ERIC LIEBETRAU story,’ is set primarily in 2009, in rural, poverty-stricken Eastern Mon- [email protected] Fiction Editor tana, with the first legal wolf hunt in decades about to begin. Wilkins LAURIE MUCHNICK crafts a subtle, tightly plotted, and slowly unfolding narrative told [email protected] Children’s Editor through three characters’ points of view….Following in the literary VICKY SMITH [email protected] roots of Montanans Jim Harrison and Rick Bass, Wilkins packs a lot of Young Adult Editor Claiborne Smith LAURA SIMEON story and stylistic wallop into this gripping, outstanding novel.” [email protected] Staff Writer MEGAN LABRISE Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in [email protected] China by Karoline Kan (March 12): “A personal examination of rural Vice President of Kirkus Indie KAREN SCHECHNER China and its one-child policy by a millennial Chinese woman who [email protected] Senior Indie Editor eventually earned an education and employment as a journalist. A DAVID RAPP former reporter for the Beijing Bureau, Kan was [email protected] New York Times Indie Editor MYRA FORSBERG born in 1989 in the village of Chaoyang, which was rebuilt after the [email protected] great Tangshan earthquake of 1976….A remarkable multigenera- Indie Editorial Assistant KATERINA PAPPAS tional memoir that clearly explores ‘the real China—its beauty and [email protected] Editorial Assistant ugliness, the weird and familiar, the joyful and sad, progressive and CHELSEA ENNEN backward at the same time.’ ” [email protected] Mysteries Editor THOMAS LEITCH Another by Christian Robinson; illus. by the author (March 5): “A young child discovers a Contributing Editor GREGORY McNAMEE portal to a whole other plane of perspective in Robinson’s latest. In the dark of night, a Copy Editor portal opens in a small girl’s bedroom, the light attracting her cat. When the curious feline BETSY JUDKINS Designer crawls through to chase another cat that looks just like it (but with a different color col- ALEX HEAD Director of Kirkus Editorial lar), the little girl cannot help but follow as well….A fearless use of white space and an utter LAUREN BAILEY disregard of conventions of direction encourage readers to engage with the physical book [email protected] Production Editor CATHERINE BRESNER as the story unfolds, touching and turning it as they literally take the narrative into their [email protected] hands. A bright, open primer for Escher.” ( ) Creative Lead Picture book. 2-5 ARDEN PIACENZA [email protected] That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri (March 5): Website and Software Developer PERCY PEREZ “Doctors labor to cure disease and (recently) comfort the dying, but this moving memoir [email protected] Advertising Director portrays a doctor practicing a new specialty that fills a gap between the two approaches…. 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Repeatedly, she witnessed patients with [email protected] devastating illnesses and little hope of cure made sicker by treatments the doctors them- for customer service or subscription questions, selves knew were futile….A profound meditation on a problem many of us will face; wor- please call 1-800-316-9361 thy of being mentioned in the same breath as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal (2014).” 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 Peg Skorpinskitall 2 | 15 march 2019 | 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: NAMWALI SERPELL ............................................. 14 merit, as determined by the READING BETWEEN THE LINES WITH AMY HEMPEL .................24 impartial editors of Kirkus. MYSTERY ..............................................................................................35 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ......................................................... 38 ROMANCE ........................................................................................... 43 nonfiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 47 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 47 EDITOR’S NOTE...................................................................................48 ALEX KOTLOWITZ’S UNCOMPROMISING AMERICAN SUMMER ......................................................................... 62 A POET PONDERS DEATH SQUADS .................................................68 children’s INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ..........................................................83 REVIEWS ..............................................................................................83 EDITOR’S NOTE...................................................................................84 BOARDING A PERILOUS BEAST TRAIN ........................................100 BOARD & NOVELTY BOOKS ............................................................120 CONTINUING SERIES ...................................................................... 130 young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................134 REVIEWS ............................................................................................134 EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................136 A BOLD RETELLING OF KING ARTHUR .........................................142 CONINUING SERIES ........................................................................150 A girl displaced by the Syrian conflict indie navigates a new home in the United States INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................151 in Jasmine Warga’s illuminating novel in REVIEWS ............................................................................................151 verse. Read the review on p. 118. EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................152 INDIE Q&A: CATHERINE BYBEE .................................................... 158 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. QUEERIES: DUSTIN LANCE BLACK ...............................................166 — You can also access the current issue and back issues of Kirkus Reviews on our INDIE BOOKS OF THE MONTH ........................................................173 website by logging in as a subscriber. If you do not have a username or password, FIELD NOTES......................................................................................174 please contact customer care to set up your account by calling 1.800.316.9361 or emailing [email protected]. APPRECIATIONS: REMEMBERING JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE ......175 | kirkus.com | contents | 15 march 2019 | 3 fiction These titles earned the Kirkus Star: THE HANDMAID’S TALE Adapt. by Nault, Renée Illus. by the adapter FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE by Taffy Brodesser-Akner ....................8 Doubleday (240 pp.) $22.95 | Mar. 26, 2019 THINGS YOU SAVE IN A FIRE by Katherine Center ..........................8 978-0-385-53924-1 CAPE MAY by Chip Cheek ................................................................... 9 An artist and illustrator takes on the THE TENTH MUSE by Catherine Chung ............................................10 feminist classic. Atwood’s is the EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER The Handmaid’s Tale by Linda Holmes ...............................18 most famous work by this celebrated author, and it is widely regarded as a CALM SEA AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE by Bette Howland ..........18 20th-century masterpiece.
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