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Salman Rushdie Discusses His New Novel, Quichotte, a Modern Retelling of Don Quixote and a Dark Satire of Contemporary America Featuring 376 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVII, NO. 17 | 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 REVIEWS Salman Rushdie discusses his new novel, Quichotte, a modern retelling of Don Quixote and a dark satire of contemporary America. p. 14 from the editor’s desk: Chairman On Losing a Literary Giant HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher BY TOM BEER MARC WINKELMAN # Chief Executive Officer MEG LABORDE KUEHN [email protected] Photo courtesy John Paraskevas courtesy Photo I saw the news on my phone as I rode the elevator up to Kirkus’ New York office Editor-in-Chief TOM BEER on the morning of Aug. 6: Toni Morrison had died. Though Morrison was 88 and had [email protected] Vice President of Marketing used a wheelchair at public appearances in recent years, the news still stunned. 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She won a Pulitzer Prize and then a Nobel, CHELSEA ENNEN Jazz Paradise Love [email protected] and her place in the literary firmament seemed assured. But she was still very Mysteries Editor THOMAS LEITCH much of our world, engaged and involved. I was fortunate to be in the audito- Contributing Editor rium at The New School in New York City the night in 2015 that she accepted GREGORY McNAMEE Copy Editor the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle; she spoke with great BETSY JUDKINS humor and humility and, as one expected, insight. Yes, it was a lifetime achievement award—but it seemed Designer ALEX HEAD impossible to believe she wouldn’t be with us for years to come, an elder dispensing wisdom to her tribe. Director of Kirkus Editorial LAUREN BAILEY Now she’s gone. To memorialize her, start by reading Gregory McNamee’s Appreciation of Morrison [email protected] Production Editor on page 195. (We already had another piece in the can, but for this issue it really had to be Toni Morrison.) CATHERINE BRESNER Then check out the list that fiction editor Laurie Muchnick assembled for our newsletter of “8 Toni Mor- [email protected] Website and Software Developer rison Books Everyone Should Read” with their original Kirkus reviews. (I love this tour through the Kirkus PERCY PEREZ [email protected] archive, seeing what our reviewers said before a book’s reputation was fixed. For example,Beloved is “truly Advertising Director MONIQUE STENSRUD majestic…strong and intricate in craft; devastating in impact,” which seems exactly right.) Finally, please go [email protected] Advertising Associate back to the books themselves—works that will surely continue to deepen in richness as time goes by. TATIANA ARNOLD Certain deaths have a similar effect: Ursula K. Le Guin. V.S. Naipaul. Philip Roth. All died last year, [email protected] Graphic Designer and those passings, like Morrison’s, are literary milestones. We miss the opportunity for further commu- LIANA WALKER [email protected] nion with a favorite author. Just this February, Morrison published The Source of Our Self-Regard, a collec- Controller MICHELLE GONZALES tion of her essays, speeches, and other nonfiction writings. (Included is that 1987 eulogy for Baldwin.) It [email protected] was a reminder that she was a great thinker as well as novelist. Toni Morrison is no longer with us, but we for customer service or subscription questions, need her words now more than ever. 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 Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2 | 1 september 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 INTERVIEW: SALMAN RUSHDIE ..................................................... 14 merit, as determined by the INTERVIEW: JEFFREY ARCHER .......................................................24 impartial editors of Kirkus. MYSTERY .............................................................................................42 SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY ......................................................... 50 ROMANCE ............................................................................................53 nonfiction INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ......................................................... 56 REVIEWS ............................................................................................. 56 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................... 58 INTERVIEW: JAMES PONIEWOZIK .................................................70 INTERVIEW: DINA NAYERI ............................................................... 76 children’s INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ....................................................... 106 REVIEWS ........................................................................................... 106 EDITOR’S NOTE................................................................................. 108 INTERVIEW: IBTIHAJ MUHAMMAD ..............................................122 INTERVIEW: HENA KHAN ..............................................................126 WINTER HOLIDAY PICTURE BOOKS ............................................. 135 young adult INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS ........................................................150 REVIEWS ............................................................................................150 EDITOR’S NOTE..................................................................................152 INTERVIEW: DAVID YOON ..............................................................154 INTERVIEW: ELIZABETH KEENAN ................................................160 The #MeToo movement forces a struggling SHELF SPACE: REDISCOVERED BOOKS IN BOISE, IDAHO .......165 young woman to confront the abusive indie relationship that defines her sexual and INDEX TO STARRED REVIEWS .......................................................166 romantic past in this gut-wrenching debut. REVIEWS ...........................................................................................166 See the review on p. 37. EDITOR’S NOTE.................................................................................168 INDIE Q&A: KRISTEN ASHLEY ....................................................... 178 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. IN MEMORIAM: ANNE LARSEN ......................................................191 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. 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