13 new books making a splash this week.
You definitely shouldn’t go to the beach or the pool, so here are 13 brand-new books to dive into instead!
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Ottessa Moshfegh, Death In Her Hands
(Penguin Press)
“…a darkly comic, brutal examination of the mucky corners of the human condition with electric prose that chills.”
–Cleveland Review of Books
Diane Johnson, The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives
(New York Review of Books)
“Lesser Lives freed up other writers to express [a] kind of democratic sympathy.”
–Los Angeles Times
Roddy Doyle, Love
(Viking)
“When I tell you that the novel isn’t so much about what happens, or happened once upon a time, as it is about the mystically inaccurate nature of language, you’ll say you learned that lesson long ago. You didn’t, at least not the way Doyle spins it.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine
(Princeton University Press)
“A well-researched historical discussion with clear current relevance.”
–Kirkus
Stephanie Scott, What’s Left of Me Is Yours
(Doubleday)
“…a strong message of hope and self-realization from an unusually intelligent whodunnit.”
–Asian Review of Books
Paolo Cognetti, tr. by Stash Luczkiw, Without Ever Reaching the Summit
(HarperOne)
“…an exquisite book by a writer of rare wisdom and grace.”
–The Wall Street Journal
Nicole Maye Goldberg, Nothing Can Hurt You
(Bloomsbury)
“She essentially has reinvented what a novel is and how it’s meant to be comprehended.”
–The Nerd Daily
David Schoenbaum, The Lives of Isaac Stern
(W. W. Norton)
“The stories are substantial and relevant, packed with the names of great musicians, especially violinists, and great musical events.”
–Booklist
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne
(Liveright)
“Du Mez leads us with apparent ease, as only a seasoned historian can.”
–The Boston Globe
Anna Cox, I Keep My Worries In My Teeth
(Little a)
“Cox is a talented storyteller with a knack for mixing sublime prose with humor and violence.”
–Publishers Weekly
Antony Dapiran, City on Fire
(Scribe)
“…combines relentless on-the-ground reporting with a deep understanding of the city’s political, economic and social undercurrents.”
–Financial Times
Julie Clark, The Last Flight
(Sourcebooks)
“[Clark] is an exceptional writer who has crafted a tale about disappearing in an age when technology makes it almost impossible.”
–Library Journal
John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened
(Simon & Schuster)
“This book ought to be a wake-up call, finally, to Republicans who have slavishly defended Trump and belittled his critics.”
–The Washington Post
