20 new books hitting shelves this week.
There’s Throwback Thursday and Caturday and Selfie Sunday, and I would really just like to know when we’re going to make New Books Tuesday happen, you guys. I mean, just look at this treasure trove of new books hitting shelves this week. Tell your friends. #NewBooksDay. It’s a thing.
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Lynda Barry, Come Over Come Over
(Drawn & Quarterly)
“Unsettling, comedic, and awkward vignettes make readers squirm with uncomfortable self-recognition—and shared hope.”
–Kirkus
Rebecca Mead, Home/Land
(Knopf)
“The author’s commentary on these and other phenomena is unfailingly insightful, precise, and well written, as one might expect from a longtime New Yorker writer.”
–Kirkus
Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland
(Ecco)
“With acerbic humor and keen wit, Havrilesky explores the complicated emotions associated with major milestones in her life … Havrilesky’s candid reflections will delight those who’ve taken the plunge, for better or for worse.”
–Publishers Weekly
Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People
(Hogarth)
“With glacial precision and mordant wit, Manguso delineates a milieu in which class and gender get silenced by lip service to the American dream.”
–The Star Tribune
Heather O’Neill, When We Lost Our Heads
(Riverhead)
“O’Neill’s sharp descriptions and her prose’s archaic slant successfully immerse readers in the period.”
–Publishers Weekly
Destiny O. Birdsong, Nobody’s Magic
(Grand Central)
“Rather than overlap, the novellas resonate with one another, allowing Birdsong, a poet, to display an impressive range of perspectives.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
(New Directions)
“Au’s novel, written without any chapter breaks, deftly uses stream of consciousness to explore the legacy of inherited family traits and the difficulty of breaking away.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Clarence Major, Dirty Bird Blues
(Penguin Classics)
“He’s a rhythmic writer with a good ear for the music of the American vernacular … a novel that’s moving—and highly enjoyable.”
–Publishers Weekly
Mónica Ojeda, tr. Sarah Booker, Jawbone
(Coffee House Press)
“There are echoes of Lovecraft and Shirley Jackson at play, but the vision is ultimately Ojeda’s own—delicious in how it seduces and disturbs the reader as the girls rely on horror both as entertainment and as a way of staving off the actual terrors of growing up. This is creepy good fun.”
–Publishers Weekly
Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
(Bloomsbury)
“At its core, it’s a novel about how love and lovers are easily misinterpreted and how romantic troubles affect friends and family. A canny and engrossing rewiring of the big-city romance.”
–Kirkus
Imogen Crimp, A Very Nice Girl
(Henry Holt)
“An absorbing novel – the unravelling of Anna’s career and the increasing constriction of her relationship are gripping without feeling mechanically plotted.”
–The Guardian
A. J. Baime, White Lies
(Mariner)
“In White Lies, Baime engagingly points the spotlight on one of the most significant figures in American history, whose story deserves to be far more widely known.”
–Booklist
Grace Lavery, Please Miss
(Seal Press)
“Essayist and UC Berkeley professor Lavery debuts with a surreal speculative memoir that’s by turns engrossing and impenetrable … LGBTQ literati will find much to explore.”
–Publishers Weekly
Brian Tierney, Rise and Float
(Milkweed)
“This powerful collection offers readers a probing, visual, tactile exploration of the past, while allowing space for tenderness and understanding.”
–Publishers Weekly
Linda Hirshman, The Color of Abolition
(Mariner)
“A well-researched history of the fraught path to emancipation.”
–Kirkus
Marco Missiroli, Fidelity
(George Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
“Clever[ly] structured with characters criss-crossing through one another’s lives and the streets of Milan, with the second half of the book taking place nine years later, Fidelity teems with pain and pleasure, blood, sweat, and semen.”
–The Evening Standard
Eliza Reid, Secrets of the Sprakkar
(Sourcebooks)
“Reid writes in hopes that the rest of the world might see Iceland as a model, and, in addition to agreeing with her, I also recommend her short, well-written, amusing and detailed book.”
–The Washington Post
Jeremy W. Peters, Insurgency
(Crown)
“…this is a cogent and accessible history of how the GOP got to where it is today.”
–Publishers Weekly
Emily Maloney, Cost of Living
(Henry Holt)
“[A] fascinating new essay collection that considers what it means to give, and receive, care. It’s a book that couldn’t be more timely.”
–The Star Tribune
Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
(Penguin Press)
“With humor and history (supported by articles, TV news segments, advertisements, and interviews), Klosterman’s volume is the perfect guide for millennials who wear vintage t-shirts ironically.”
–Library Journal
