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Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA Books Featuring 241 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA Books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVI, NO. 21 | 1 NOVEMBER 2018 REVIEWS Photo © David Beinstein 2017 Beinstein © David Photo A Q&A with Veera Hiranandani author of The Night Diary Q: What inspired you to write The Night Diary? A: My father and his family had to leave their home in Mirpur Khas during the Partition. I heard my father, and my aunts and uncles tell the story as I was growing up. They lost their home, their community, but they made it safely, but many people did not. When I became a writer, I knew I wanted to shape a story around this time, but it took me a while before I felt confident enough to try. Q: Why did you choose an epistolary format? “The more our A: I felt like it would be a powerful and intimate way to show a character children feel who feels like she doesn’t have a voice, discover the power of her words, and ask the questions she needs to ask about her world and the crisis connected as she’s in. I also like placing some kind of boundary and structure on my global citizens, writing process. It forces me to think more carefully about my choices I believe the as I write. more open-minded, Q: What would you like readers to take away from your novel? A: I would like readers to feel inspired to use their voices, even when curious, empathetic, they feel like they don’t have one. I also hope people will be encouraged and less xenophobic to look underneath labels like refugee or immigrant or a religion that seems unfamiliar to them and see the specific, unique individual. they will grow Q: Why do you think it’s important for kids today to read up to be.” beyond their borders? A: I grew up in the US only learning about the Partition from my family. I don’t remember learning about it at school. There’s a large amount of global history that Americans often don’t know much about. This history and these experiences are too important to go unnoticed. We are global citizens and we come from all over the world. The more our children feel connected as global citizens, I believe the more open-minded, curious, empathetic, and less xenophobic they will grow up to be. Praise for The Night Diary • $16.99 9780735228511 H “A gripping, nuanced story of the human cost of conflict appropriate for both children and adults.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review H “The diary format gives her story striking intimacy and immediacy, serving as a window into a fraught historical moment.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review H “Remarkably poignant… an important historical tale to tell.” —School Library Connection, starred review H “This rich, compelling story… should be in all libraries serving middle grade readers.” —School Library Journal, starred review H “Sure to appeal to young readers.” —Shelf Awareness, starred review Featuring 241 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVI, NO. 21 | 1 NOVEMBER 2018 REVIEWS B EYOND O UR B ORDERS SPECIAL COVERAGE OF VITAL INTERNATIONAL WRITERS from the editor’s desk: Chairman The Beyond Our Borders 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 Editor-in-Chief Fiction editor Laurie Muchnick’s column (p. 6) in this special issue, the CLAIBORNE SMITH Beyond Our Borders issue, highlights a crucial irony about literature [email protected] Vice President of Marketing translated into English: It seems like translated books are everywhere, SARAH KALINA [email protected] but the number of fiction and poetry translations, at least, has been Managing/Nonfiction Editor ERIC LIEBETRAU dropping recently, according to Chad Post, the publisher of Open Let- [email protected] Fiction Editor ter, a nonprofit publisher of literary translations. Post tracks those LAURIE MUCHNICK numbers at his Three Percent blog. [email protected] Children’s Editor Why, then, has it felt lately like the rest of the world has been arriv- VICKY SMITH [email protected] ing in America in welcome waves in the form of excellent translated Young Adult Editor Claiborne Smith LAURA SIMEON books? Are there more reviews in American media outlets of trans- [email protected] Staff Writer lated literature? More American presses publishing international writers? Are American MEGAN LABRISE readers eagerly seeking international writers? Would readers be so motivated in resistance [email protected] Vice President of Kirkus Indie to the Trump administration’s America First policies that they buy international writers’ KAREN SCHECHNER [email protected] books as a form of political protest? (That’s probably a long shot, but Photo courtesy Nick White courtesy Photo Senior Indie Editor DAVID RAPP political resistance has been taking some unexpected forms recently.) [email protected] Indie Editor Do we give credit to Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard for not MYRA FORSBERG only writing exceptional books, but also jump-starting a movement [email protected] Indie Editorial Assistant to read more internationally? KATERINA PAPPAS [email protected] Whatever the reasons, translated books are having a moment that Editorial Assistant CHELSEA ENNEN we at Kirkus hope lasts much longer than a moment. In this issue, we [email protected] Mysteries Editor interview writers who are either from or writing about Ghana, Peru, THOMAS LEITCH Japan, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Syria, Scotland, Contributing Editor GREGORY McNAMEE Australia, Saudi Arabia, and Colombia. In nonfiction, for example, Copy Editor we interview Sisonke Msimang (p. 50), whose memoir from World Sisonke Msimang BETSY JUDKINS Designer Editions, Always Another Country, our reviewer calls “eloquent and ALEX HEAD Director of Kirkus Editorial affecting.” LAUREN BAILEY “[P]art of what happens with racism, is that when you see a complex black person, he or [email protected] Production Editor she becomes the exception,” Msimang tells reporter Joshunda Sanders. “That can continue CATHERINE BRESNER [email protected] if you write just about yourself. But if you create a community of complex black people… Creative Lead ARDEN PIACENZA that makes it really difficult to think about the exceptional black person.” Colombian nov- [email protected] elist Tomás González’s slim novel, , is out from Archipelago Books on Nov. 20; Website and Software Developer The Storm PERCY PEREZ he tells reporter Richard Santos (p. 18) that “if somebody in my books wants to turn into [email protected] Advertising Director a beetle or a roach or go to heaven in body and soul, I would do it, no matter if Kafka and MONIQUE STENSRUD [email protected] García Márquez already did it. I am not a magical-realistic writer. Or maybe I am, or would Controller MICHELLE GONZALES like to be, but the magic I want is not overly dramatic but simple, quiet magic.” There are [email protected] vibrant insights like those throughout this issue, and they arrive from all over the globe. We for customer service or subscription questions, hope this issue delivers ideas for wonderful books you may not have encountered before. 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 design by opportunities Arden Piacenza 2 | 1 november 2018 | from the editor’s desk | kirkus.com | you can now purchase books online at kirkus.com contents fiction young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ...........................................................4 INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ....................................................... 106 REVIEWS ...............................................................................................4 REVIEWS ........................................................................................... 106 EDITOR’S NOTE.....................................................................................6 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................. 108 INTERVIEW: SARAH PERRY ............................................................. 10 INTERVIEW: ANAT DERACINE.......................................................110 INTERVIEW: TED GOOSSEN ............................................................. 14 INTERVIEW: EMIKO JEAN ..............................................................114 INTERVIEW: TOMÁS GONZÁLEZ ..................................................... 18 INTERVIEW: MARTIN STEWART ....................................................118 LIST: 10 INTERNATIONAL FICTION WRITERS YOU SHOULD LIST: 10 INTERNATIONAL YA WRITERS YOU SHOULD BE READING .......................................................................................22 BE READING .....................................................................................120 MYSTERY ..............................................................................................30 SHELF SPACE: IDLEWILD BOOKS .................................................121 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY .........................................................40 ROMANCE ........................................................................................... 41 indie INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................
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