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VOL. LXXXVII, NO. 24 | 15 DECEMBER 2019 REVIEWS from the Editor’S Desk Featuring 324 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVII, NO. 24 | 15 DECEMBER 2019 REVIEWS from the editor’s desk: Our 2020 Wish List Chairman HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher BY TOM BEER MARC WINKELMAN # Chief Executive Officer MEG LABORDE KUEHN [email protected] John Paraskevas Editor-in-Chief Over the past few weeks, the staff of Kirkus Reviews has been enveloped TOM BEER in a golden nimbus of book love, as we presented our Best of 2019 lists in [email protected] Vice President of Marketing fiction, picture books, middle-grade books, nonfiction, and young adult SARAH KALINA books. In this issue we highlight 100 of the best Indie titles published this [email protected] Managing/Nonfiction Editor year. Books are wonderful, we feel worthy, and all is right with the world. ERIC LIEBETRAU Lots of heart emojis. [email protected] Fiction Editor But hang on just a moment. LAURIE MUCHNICK Kirkus sees thousands of books every year, and there’s plenty that we [email protected] Children’s Editor like. For every outstanding work of literature brought forth by the VICKY SMITH don’t [email protected] publishing industry, there are dozens of others that are forgettable, half- Tom Beer Young Adult Editor baked, or, occasionally, downright objectionable. We get it—this is a tough LAURA SIMEON [email protected] business without a surefire model for success, and publishers have to try a lot of different things Editor at Large to see what works. MEGAN LABRISE [email protected] But we’re critics first and foremost, and our job is to evaluate books honestly and fairly, good Vice President of Kirkus Indie and bad alike. (Any author who has received a negative review from Kirkus will not be surprised KAREN SCHECHNER [email protected] to learn this.) So as we wind up 2019, we’re calling out some of the publishing trends we weren’t Senior Indie Editor DAVID RAPP so crazy about. [email protected] Laurie Muchnick, Fiction Editor: Bland titles. Too many publishers go for them—and I Indie Editor MYRA FORSBERG do believe it’s the publishers, not the authors. When I got early galleys of Angie Kim’s Miracle [email protected] Creek—one of our Best Books of 2019—it was called Miracle Submarine. You might not know Associate Manager of Indie KATERINA PAPPAS what that means, but its intriguing, and you’d remember it, wouldn’t you? I’d like to see more [email protected] publishers taking a chance on unusual book titles, especially after the success of Ocean Vuong’s Editorial Assistant JOHANNA ZWIRNER On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. [email protected] Eric Liebetrau, Nonfiction Editor: Blog Books. Now that seemingly everyone has a blog, Mysteries Editor many bloggers are publishing books, and most of them are disposable. If you can’t do more than THOMAS LEITCH Contributing Editor lift your blog material and shove it between two covers with an introduction, don’t bother. GREGORY McNAMEE Vicky Smith, Children’s Editor: The infestation of “Baby Shark” books. Books crafted Copy Editor BETSY JUDKINS around viral sensations are an inevitable phenomenon of our age, and far more often than not Designer they fail miserably at capturing whatever made their source material viral and sensational. “Baby ALEX HEAD Shark” books, for example, are impossible to enjoy without knowing the song. What’s a reader Director of Kirkus Editorial LAUREN BAILEY to do with lines like, “Baby shark! Doo doo doo doo doo doo!”? Without the tune, it’s just a lot of, [email protected] Production Editor well, “doo doo.” CATHERINE BRESNER Laura Simeon, Young Adult Editor: The gap in the market when it comes to younger YA [email protected] Website and Software Developer readers. Sixth graders are worlds away from 12th graders developmentally. They’re also differ- PERCY PEREZ ent from bright elementary kids who can “read up.” We can’t forget that YA covers a broad age [email protected] Advertising Director range and it needs to serve kids at the younger end as well as older teens who are more sensitive MONIQUE STENSRUD or otherwise want less intense and explicit materials and kids who struggle with or dislike read- [email protected] Advertising Associate ing and who deserve high-quality, accessible materials. TATIANA ARNOLD Karen Schechner, Vice President of Kirkus Indie: The New York Times’ practice of ignor- [email protected] Advertising Coordinator ing self-published books. In 2018, indie authors published 1.7 million books. The Gray Lady KELSEY WILLIAMS doesn’t have to sift through all of them; she can start in this magazine’s Indie section and pick [email protected] Graphic Designer a good one, like anything by Jacob M. Appel, or email me, and I’ll make a few suggestions: LIANA WALKER [email protected]. [email protected] Controller Now that we have that out of our system, here’s to more books we love in 2020! MICHELLE GONZALES [email protected] for customer service or subscription questions, please call 1-800-316-9361 for more reviews and features, Cover design by visit us online at kirkus.com. Liana Walker 2 | 15 december 2019 | from the editor’s desk | kirkus.com | you can now purchase books online at kirkus.com contents special issue: best books of 2019 best indie books of 2019 REVIEWS ..............................................................................................4 EDITOR’S NOTE ...................................................................................6 15 december 2019 issue fiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................55 REVIEWS .............................................................................................55 MYSTERY............................................................................................ 87 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ....................................................... 97 ROMANCE .........................................................................................99 nonfiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ..................................................... 102 REVIEWS .......................................................................................... 102 children’s INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ..................................................... 134 REVIEWS .......................................................................................... 134 BOARD & NOVELTY BOOKS .......................................................... 165 CONTINUING SERIES .....................................................................177 young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ..................................................... 182 REVIEWS .......................................................................................... 182 CONTINUING SERIES .................................................................... 195 indie INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS .....................................................196 REVIEWS ..........................................................................................196 INDIE BOOKS OF THE MONTH ......................................................215 | kirkus.com | contents | 15 december 2019 | 3 special issue: best books of 2019 indie THE PATRON SAINT OF HIGH DIVE LOST GIRLS Amon, Elizabeth Aitken, Maureen Manuscript Southeast Missouri State Univ. Press (172 pp.) A middle-aged woman considers what $18.00 paper | Oct. 8, 2018 constitutes infidelity in this debut novel. 978-0-9979262-7-9 As an award-winning photojournalist, Alex used to travel to war-torn parts of A short story collection recounts the globe to capture scenes of suffering, significant episodes in a young Michigan hoping to awaken the American pub- woman’s life. lic to problems that their government In this book, which won the 2016 helped create. Now, she’s a 43-year-old mother of two who pho- Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel, Aitken (Writing/Univ. tographs family portraits in her Westchester, New York, studio. of Minnesota) gathers both new and previously published short Her lawyer husband, Martin, tells people that she left her previ- stories into a singular anthology. The work centers on one char- ous job because she decided “It was time for something new”; acter: Mary, a spirited writer and artist born in 1960s Detroit. Berks, her fellow photojournalist and former lover, accuses her Although each piece can stand entirely on its own, together of selling out in exchange for stultifying suburban bliss. Alex these brief glimpses weave a rich tapestry of a life, incorporat- knows that neither description tells the whole story, but she ing themes of family and romance, work and destitution, inspi- isn’t quite sure how to frame her own life. She doesn’t miss the ration and addiction, determination and loss. Even the simplest danger of her past work, but she does miss its exhilaration and moments have a sense of gravitas and quiet beauty; for example, sense of purpose. When her glamorous older sister, Maggie, while remembering picking raspberries with her grandfather, casually mentions that their late father had an affair and that Mary comments, “As with the seasons before, I had only to look she herself is sleeping with a married man, Alex feels something his way and consider how his pale, steady hand coaxed the ber- spark inside her. She resolves to capture the essence of extra- ries away from their inevitable fall.” Indeed, Mary’s complex- marital affairs in photos, starting by taking covert pictures of ity as a protagonist will make it easy for readers to forget the Maggie and her boyfriend. But
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