20 new books coming out today.
You know what they say: April showers bring May books. Here’s today’s brand-new batch coming to (virtual) bookstores near you. Consider this a friendly reminder that it’s never a bad idea to support your local indie.
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Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease
(Grove Press)
“This memoir churns deep in the soul. Here is a talented writer plumbing her personal experience as deeply as she can. The results are staggeringly beautiful.”
–Shelf Awareness
Tracy O’Neill, Quotients
(Soho Press)
“This is a poignant lament for our time’s lost generation, which may be all of us.”
–Booklist
Tim Etchells, Endland
(And Other Stories)
“Etchells makes sparks fly by allowing the mythic to rub against grubby everyday existence.”
–The Observer
Olivia Laing, Funny Weather
(W.W. Norton)
“Yes, you’re in for a treat … There are few voices that we can reliably read widely these days, but I would read Laing writing about proverbial paint drying.”
–The Irish Times
Jim Newton, Man of Tomorrow
(Little Brown)
“Newton brings his deep knowledge of California politics to an engaging, sympathetic biography of the state’s 34th and 39th governor, Jerry Brown.”
–Kirkus
Francesca Momplaisir, My Mother’s House
(Knopf)
“Momplaisir’s arresting take on the abuse of male power will long haunt the reader.”
–Publishers Weekly
Richard Ford, Sorry For Your Trouble
(Ecco)
“Once again, virtuoso Ford deftly sails the seas and storms of consciousness.”
–Booklist
Lauren Francis-Sharma, Book of the Little Axe
(Atlantic Monthly)
“Francis-Sharma’s prose shines in this epic and propulsive historical novel.”
–The Millions
Corinne Manning, We Had No Rules
(Arsenal Pulp Press)
“Manning’s debut collection exquisitely examines queer relationships with equal parts humor, heartache, and titillation.”
–Publishers Weekly
Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible
(W. W. Norton)
“With brilliant restraint, Millet conceives her own low-key ‘bible’ … an exotic but still decodable shred of evidence from the lost world that is the world we are living in right now.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Ian Zack, Odetta
(Beacon Press)
“Those unaware of her work will be compelled to learn more. An illuminating, stirring biography of the extraordinary ‘Queen of American Folk.'”
–Library Journal
Alan D. Gaff, Lou Gehrig
(Simon & Schuster)
“A fitting tribute to an inspiring baseball legend.”
–Publishers Weekly
Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House
(Custom House)
“For fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Catherine House is a haunting, atmospheric reflection on the discovery of self and others.”
–Booklist
A. Kendra Greene, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
(Penguin Books)
“The Museum of Whales provides a much-needed detour to a place most of us won’t ever get to see.”
–Newsweek
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan, Atomic Spy
(Viking)
“A detailed and authoritative yet equally interesting and readable study.”
–Library Journal
Jill Watts, The Black Cabinet
(Grove Press)
“[A] groundbreaking reappraisal of an unheralded chapter in the battle for civil rights.”
–Publishers Weekly
Richard Haass, The World
(Penguin Press)
“Haas’s broad survey may make a useful introduction for neophytes.”
–Publishers Weekly
Julianne Pachico, The Anthill
(Doubleday)
“Vivid and at times surreal, this assured novel cements Pachico’s reputation as a gifted writer to watch.”
–BookPage
Scott Turow, The Last Trial
(Grand Central Publishing)
“Serious readers should be reading Turow, because he is not just one of our best crime novelists; he is also one of our better novelists.”
–The New York Times
Marisa de los Santos, I’d Give Anything
(William Morrow)
“De los Santos’s heartfelt latest illustrates how tragedy can be overcome by love, honesty, and forgiveness.”
–Publishers Weekly
