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Jack Fairweather's Featuring 445 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVII, NO. 13 | 1 JULY 2019 REVIEWS Jack Fairweather’s The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz shines a powerful spotlight on a courageous man and his impressive accomplishments in the face of unspeakable evil. It’s an inspiring story beautifully told. p. 72 from the editor’s desk: Chairman HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher Goodbye MARC WINKELMAN BY CLAIBORNE SMITH # Chief Executive Officer MEG LABORDE KUEHN [email protected] Photo courtesy Michael Thad Carter courtesy Photo Editor-in-Chief This is the column when I say goodbye. Being the CLAIBORNE SMITH editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews has been a dream job. 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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 Barney Jones 2 | 1 july 2019 | from the editor’s desk | kirkus.com | you can now purchase books online at kirkus.com contents fiction The Kirkus Star is awarded INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ...........................................................4 REVIEWS ...............................................................................................4 to books of remarkable EDITOR’S NOTE.....................................................................................6 merit, as determined by the PETER ORNER’S ABSURDITIES ........................................................ 14 impartial editors of Kirkus. MYSTERY .............................................................................................40 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ..........................................................51 ROMANCE ........................................................................................... 52 nonfiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 56 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 56 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................... 58 ON THE COVER: JACK FAIRWEATHER ...........................................72 ISHA SESAY GETS THE STORY ......................................................... 78 children’s INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 89 EDITOR’S NOTE...................................................................................90 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 91 young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................152 REVIEWS ............................................................................................152 EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................154 MICHELLE RUIZ KEIL DEBUTS WITH WINGS ..............................160 Separated from her younger brother in the SHELF SPACE: OBLONG BOOKS & MUSIC ...................................172 chaos of postwar Vietnam, a refugee newly indie arrived in Texas crosses paths with a wannabe INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................173 rodeo cowboy as she sets off in search of her REVIEWS ............................................................................................173 sibling. Read the review on p. 162. EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................174 Don’t wait on the mail for reviews! You can read pre-publication reviews as INDIE Q&A: KYLIE SCOTT ............................................................... 180 they are released on kirkus.com—even before they are published in the magazine. You can also access the current issue and back issues of Kirkus Reviews on our FIELD NOTES.....................................................................................194 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 1.800.316.9361 or emailing [email protected]. | kirkus.com | contents | 1 july 2019 | 3 fiction These titles earned the Kirkus Star: WE, THE SURVIVORS Aw, Tash Farrar, Straus and Giroux WE, THE SURVIVORS by Tash Aw ..................................................... 4 (336 pp.) $27.00 | Sep. 3, 2019 EVERYTHING INSIDE by Edwidge Danticat ....................................12 978-0-374-28724-5 CANTORAS by Carolina De Robertis .................................................13 A rumination on the way systems of BLOOMLAND by John Englehardt .....................................................18 power and currents of hope in modern- day Malaysia can influence a life. LIVE A LITTLE by Howard Jacobson ................................................. 20 When Lee Hock Lye clubs a Bangla- deshi stranger to death with a two-foot COLD STORAGE by David Koepp ..................................................... 24 piece of wood, everyone is searching for a motive. Even after THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ITALIAN SHORT STORIES Ah Hock has served his three-year prison sentence, an Ameri- ed. by Jhumpa Lahiri ......................................................................... 24 can-educated sociology student wants to interview him for her dissertation. She wants to understand his story. “ That’s THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO Why? by Christy Lefteri .............................30 what you want to know. Just like everyone else,” he confronts her early in the novel, “But like the others, you’re going
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