13 new books to get on Independent Bookstore Day.
This Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day. So you basically have to stop by your local indie and stock up on books to your heart’s content!
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Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
(Library of America)
The Man Who Lived Underground is constructed of the precise, often terse, sentences that are a hallmark of Wright’s work, and its prose, thrumming with energy, has many pleasures to offer.”
–The New Republic
Fiona Mozley, Hot Stew
(Algonquin Books)
“To direct so many through a labyrinthine story in just over 300 pages is a kind of mastery. The careful ingredients of Hot Stew combine to expose the potency of old narratives.”
–The Irish Times
Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
(Knopf)
“It’s a rare gift; Zauner perfectly distills the palpable ache for her mother and wraps her grief in an aromatic conjuring of her mother’s presence.”
–BookPage
Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
(Doubleday)
“Bohjalian is a perennial favorite, and this Salem Witch Hunt drama has a special magnetism.”
–Booklist
Jonathan Ames, A Man Named Doll
(Mulholland)
“Readers will happily root for Doll, a good detective and a decent human, in this often funny and grisly outing.”
–Publishers Weekly
Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever, World Travel
(Ecco)
“This gloriously messy miscellany of off-kilter observations and lightning-in-a-bottle insights will make one want to read, eat, and experience the world the way Bourdain did.”
–Publishers Weekly
Jenny Diski, Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
(Bloomsbury)
“Her writing will forever remain young, funny and rebellious. And her essays – dare I say it – earn a blessing even when what they consider is cursed.”
–The Guardian
Hebe Uhart, tr. Robert Croll, Animals
(Archipelago)
“[Uhart] is one of the most singular and exciting female voices of recent decades in Latin America.”
–Morning Star
Cassandra Lane, We Are Bridges
(Feminist Press)
“In this narrative, Lane seeks an origin story, searching for what facts are available and wondering about the legacy she is passing on. . . . A multiangled exploration of family trauma and the forging of an identity.”
–Kirkus
Joshua D. Rothman, The Ledger and the Chain
(Basic Books)
“An excellent work of vast research that hauntingly delineates the ‘intimate daily savageries of the slave trade.'”
–Kirkus
Louis Menand, The Free World
(FSG)
“A sumptuous canvas of postwar culture and global politics, impeccable scholarship paired with page-turning prose.”
–Oprah Daily
Jon Dunn, The Glitter in the Green
(Basic Books)
“A mesmerizing, wonder-filled nature study that also serves as a cautionary tale about wildlife conservation.”
–Kirkus
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Radical Vision
(Yale University Press)
“A central aim of Colbert’s biography, as with Perry’s book and Strain’s documentary, is to reclaim Hansberry as the radical she was.”
–The New York Times
