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Don’t Skip Out on Me: A Novel THIS The Hush: A Novel By Willy Vlautin By John Hart (Harper Perennial, 9780062684455, $22.99) MONTH’S #1 (St. Martin’s Press, 9781250012302, $27.99) “Horace Hopper, the Irish-Paiute Indian protagonist Educated: A Memoir “The Hush, set 10 years after The Last Child, explores in Don’t Skip Out on Me, dreams of erasing the shame By Tara Westover what Johnny Merrimon has made of his life. Despite all of childhood abandonment by reinventing himself as the publicity around the events of his childhood, Johnny (Random House, 9780399590504, $28) a professional boxer. His boss and surrogate father, tries to keep a low profile, staying hidden in the swamp an elderly sheep rancher, wrestles with the choices of “Tara Westover is barely 30; could of Hush Arbor, where he feels a connection to his land. his own history, and does his best to maintain a way of life that is rapidly she really write a necessary and The only person he wants to see is his childhood friend, Jack, who senses disappearing. Vlautin intertwines the lives and fates of these two men in timely memoir already? Absolutely. an evil presence in the swamp Johnny loves so much. When bodies start a work of astonishing beauty and heartbreak, and guides the reader to an Raised largely ‘off the grid’ in rural piling up on Johnny’s land, the sheriff is convinced that Johnny had ending that is as true and real as it gets. Willy Vlautin has been literature’s Idaho—without school, doctor something to do with the deaths. Hart does not disappoint with his newest best-kept secret for far too long. He may well be our own Steinbeck, but visits, a birth certificate, or even a book, a story about friendship, family, and connection. His writing will with a haunting steel-guitar sensibility all his own.” family consensus on the date of her draw you in from the first chapter, and you’ll be hooked until the end.” birth—Tara nevertheless decides —Patrick Millikin, The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Scottsdale, AZ —Melissa Oates, Fiction Addiction, Greenville, SC she wants to go to college. This is a story in two parts: First, Tara’s Census: A Novel Anatomy of a Miracle: A Novel childhood working in a danger- By Jonathan Miles ous scrapyard alongside her six By Jesse Ball (Hogarth, 9780553447583, $27) siblings, her survivalist father, (Ecco, 9780062676139, $25.99) “A priest, a doctor, and a reality TV producer walk into and her mother, a conflicted but “Jesse Ball, you brilliant weirdo, how did you do it? a convenience store... Actually, the notable walker in talented midwife and healer, while fearing Y2K and the influence of the Census is a novel about everything big, told in the this story is Cameron Harris, a paralyzed soldier who secular world; then, her departure from her mountain home to receive miniature, heart-wrenching tableau of a census. We are inexplicably rises from his wheelchair and starts walking an education. Both halves of her story are equally fascinating. Educated grazed by the notion that something is a bit different in in the Biz-E-Bee parking lot. Anatomy of a Miracle follows is a testament to Tara’s brilliance and tenacity, a bittersweet rendering this world, breathing down our necks. Sentences inspire Harris and the aforementioned sundry characters in the aftermath and of how family relationships can be cruel or life-saving, and a truly great double takes, characters jump from the page into life, and a transformative dissection of this reported ‘miracle.’ Was it science? Was it divine? Was it a read from the first page to the last.” journey is undertaken for both the reader and the characters. As the end of hoax? Will it make for a hit TV show? Jonathan Miles’ charming—and often —Emilie Sommer, East City Bookshop, Washington, DC the alphabet approaches, the landscape becomes more haunting, and the humorous—novel explores the varying perspectives on faith, truth, and the reader learns more about love and death than I thought was possible in a unexpected consequences of the miraculous.” single book.” —Lelia Nebeker, One More Page Books, Arlington, VA Eat the Apple: A Memoir —Halley Parry, Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN By Matt Young Tomb Song: A Novel Sunburn: A Novel (Bloomsbury USA, 9781632869500, $26) By Julián Herbert By Laura Lippman “To take the memories of a combat veteran and (William Morrow, 9780062389923, $26.99) transform them into something funny, tender, and even (Graywolf Press, 9781555977993, trade paper, $16) “Sunburn pays homage to the novels of James M. Cain, whimsical at times is a delicate dance. Matt Young’s “Julián Herbert’s English-language debut is a stunner. offering up crooked cops, handsome drifters, and, of Eat the Apple does this in frank flashes, exposing the Meshing memoir and essay, Tomb Song is the rough, course, a femme fatale. Watch the secrets unravel as a senseless acts of cruelty inherent in military training darkly comic tale of a writer finding his voice while runaway wife with an ugly past takes up in a small town. and its psychological effects on soldiers. His unrelenting refusal to be coming to terms with his mother dying. Switching Lovers of noir will delight in the familiar tropes. We pitied and the humor in his self-awareness are what make this memoir between the past and the present, the author reflects on know she’s bad, but how bad is she? Will an affair between two untrust- especially readable. Although you’ll cringe with him during vulnerable and a childhood spent in poverty and a decade lost to drug use. A rare glimpse worthy people turn into true love? Sunburn is the perfect book to take on humiliating moments, his ownership of these experiences translates into into the lower ranks of Mexican society without hyperbole or stereotypes that spring break to a sunny locale. Pour the lemonade and lay out your a sort of wisdom you can take away, making Eat the Apple both a playful of narco traffickers,Tomb Song is vibrant with humor, passion, and the beach towel.” and cautionary war tale.” realization of a family’s profound importance.” —Sarah Sorensen, Bookbug, Kalamazoo, MI —Aubrey Winkler, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR —Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX Sometimes I Lie: A Novel Rosie Colored Glasses: A Novel Some Hell: A Novel By Alice Feeney By Brianna Wolfson By Patrick Nathan (Flatiron Books, 9781250144843, $26.99) (MIRA, 9780778330691, $26.99) (Graywolf Press, 9781555977986, trade paper, $16) “I feel messed up after finishing this, which is what I “Readers who loved Half Broke Horses will wholly “The teen years are difficult for most young people, but look for in a thriller. The twists and turns are dizzying, embrace debut author Brianna Wolfson’s Rosie Colored 14-year-old Colin is having a particularly devastating leading to an ending you won’t see coming. Amber is Glasses. Loosely based on Wolfson’s own family story, experience. In the aftermath of his father’s suicide and recovering from a car crash, and since she’s not quite Rosie Colored Glasses follows 11-year-old Willow an epic betrayal by his best friend, Colin tries to come to out of her coma, we get to see flashbacks of her life through the divorce of her parents, the navigation of two terms with his budding sexuality and his role in the new and the events that brought her to where she is today. Everything—her homes, the extreme and outrageous outpourings of love from her mother, dynamics of his troubled family. His father’s diaries and a road trip with radio job, her writer husband, and her perfect sister, Claire—is not what Rosie, the stoic steadfastness of her father, and the ultimate realization his mother open new horizons for Colin as he attempts to find his place in it seems. But then, neither is Amber. A perfect thriller to discuss and that Rosie’s behavior, although loving and caring, may not ultimately be an uncertain future. Author Patrick Nathan takes a brutally honest look at deconstruct with your book club!” healthy for either of them. A quick, powerful read that will stick with you coming of age in the wake of tragedy. Prepare for an unflinching look at —Kate Towery, The Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA long after you turn the final page.” the life of the modern family in this stunning debut by a talented and fresh —Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, NC voice in fiction.” The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories —Pamela Klinger-Horn, Excelsior Bay Books, Excelsior, MN The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: By Michael Andreasen I Found My Tribe: A Memoir (Dutton, 9781101986615, $25) A Novel in Clues “It is a rare thing when a collection of short stories By Ruth Fitzmaurice By Nova Jacobs (Bloomsbury USA, 9781635571585, $25) absolutely blows your mind, and Andreasen’s collection (Touchstone, 9781501175121, $25) packs a wallop. His uncanny world-building, using “Life’s journey is not fair. It isn’t. But you cope, as Ruth “Isaac Severy has died and taken the secret of his last animals and strange mythologies to describe a world so Fitzmaurice did and does. The book’s short vignettes mathematical equation with him. Except that he has much and slightly unlike our own, gives him the gift of read like fables—as if the author is above, looking in also hidden clues to a hiding place for this final work nailing such deep concepts and providing such profound insights into the on herself, her life. Reminiscent of the humor of Anne and shares these clues with his adopted granddaughter, human character. How can we explain to aliens the difference between Lamott and the candor of Joan Didion, I Found My Tribe Hazel, who he has charged with finding his hidden treasure and getting it ‘having relations’ and ‘having a relationship?’ When an ideal exists that is a memoir about a resilient woman who finds ways to cope with her into the hands of a trusted colleague. But she’s not the only one looking we all strive for, what will our lives be like if we actually achieve it? husband’s debilitating disease: daydream, become a superhero, swim in the for his equation, and some of the other searchers are dangerous indeed. Magnificent, enchanting, and full of literary verve.” frigid waters of Ireland, and, of course, find her tribe in family and friends.” This inviting mystery allows us to follow along as Hazel makes her way —Raul Chapa, BookPeople, Austin, TX —Mindy Ostrow, the river’s end bookstore, Oswego, NY toward the answer, so be prepared to put on your thinking cap and get out your best clue-solving approach—you’ll need all the help you can get. I The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions: absolutely loved this debut!” A Novel —Linda Bond, Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane, WA Win the Vote By Mario Giordano, John Brownjohn (Trans.) By Elaine Weiss (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9781328863577, $24) Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems (Viking, 9780525429722, $28) “Introducing Auntie Poldi, a sixtyish amateur sleuth By Tarfia Faizullah “Over the course of two steamy weeks in August 1920, who stars as the heroine of Giordano’s new series of (Graywolf Press, 9781555978006, trade paper, $16) hordes of suffragists, anti-suffragists, lobbyists, and delicious mysteries. She’s sexy, outrageous, can’t mind “‘Why do you always ask what can’t be answered?’ lawmakers descended on Nashville in a fight to make her own business, and has just retired to Sicily, where Registers of Illuminated Villages is a collection of immense Tennessee the 36th and final state to ratify the 19th she intends to lay about and drink good wine for the rest of her days on the physical, emotional, and spiritual hunger. Faizullah Amendment, giving women the right to vote. This was the final chance, and world’s most fabulous island. Of course, things are soon stirred up by the explores the boundaries of open, unending questions as both sides would do whatever it took to win—bullying, bribery, blackmail, murder of her hot young handyman, and Poldi becomes deeply involved. she looks for a timeline for grief, a god to fulfill the duties of a god, and a and even kidnapping. I was on the edge of my seat. I had no idea how close Great characters, fun plot, Italian charm—and what could be better reading home that doesn’t resemble home anymore. Contemplative and beautiful, the suffragists came to losing. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.” for the chilly months than a novel set in sun-soaked Sicily? Don’t miss this book should be held close to feel the power of its vulnerability.” —Lisa Wright, Oblong Books and Music, Millerton, NY what the Times Literary Supplement calls ‘a masterful treat.’” —Nicole McCarthy, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA —Lisa Howorth, Square Books, Oxford, MS A Long Way from Home: A Novel Speak No Evil: A Novel By Peter Carey Promise: A Novel By Uzodinma Iweala (Knopf, 9780525520177, $26.95) By Minrose Gwin (Harper, 9780061284922, $26.99) “Carey uses the Australian cross-country Redux auto (William Morrow, 9780062471710, $25.99) “‘This is who I am.’ ‘This is what happened to me.’ These trials of the 1950s to explore how the need to be accepted “I could not put this book down. I felt like I was trapped are the simplest of expressions, yet the ability to speak directs our motivations and, accordingly, our fates. in Gwin’s tornado, wandering through the devastated them fully is a privilege not shared by the teenaged Titch and Irene Bobs join up with their neighbor Willy streets and blown-apart buildings, feeling the chaos protagonists of this novel. Nigerian immigrant and Bachhuber, a maps expert, to race the Redux. For Titch, and brokenness. In the midst of it all, I could also feel Harvard-accepted aspiring doctor Niru is not able to tell an opportunistic car salesman, the race represents the chance to seize the strength and determination of Dovey and Jo and his conservative religious parents that he is gay. The daughter of D.C.’s national fame—and the respect of his larger-than-life father. Through the experience their humanity, honesty, obstinance, and kindness. With all political elite, Meredith is not able to tell the world what really happened in journey, Carey delves into Australia’s virulent racism toward its indigenous the fires, hurricanes, and floods we’ve had around the country recently, an alley outside a bar on a hot spring night. Speak No Evil describes how populations and its embedded intolerance of miscegenation. As the miles along with continuing racial tensions, this story, though set in 1936, loving relationships are strained, how trust is shattered, and how bodies accumulate, Irene and Willy’s lives change in profound ways, and we, in speaks loudly to us today.” can be broken when the truth is silenced. This heartbreakingly beautiful turn, experience Carey’s wit, heart, and intelligence, as well as his skill in —Serena Wycoff, Copperfish Books, Punta Gorda, FL story will stay with you for a long time.” bringing these characters and this place and time so vibrantly to life.” —Jill Zimmerman, Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI —Lori Feathers, Interabang Books, Dallas, TX Indies Introduce