The SistersJonas Hassen Khemiri. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (656p) ISBN 978-0-374-61889-6
Khemiri (The Family Clause) follows three sisters and their childhood friend, a fellow Swedish Tunisian named Jonas, over decades in this wondrous novel. The Mikkola girls’ distinct personalities are evident from the opening scene of a Y2K New Year’s Eve party: Ina, the eldest at 24, is the... Continue reading »
WhistleLinwood Barclay. Morrow, $19.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-343603-9
Barclay (I Will Ruin You) delivers a harrowing supernatural thriller centered around a model train set. In 2001, seven-year-old Jeremy receives a toy engine for Christmas and ties one of his sister’s dolls to the tracks. When the train strikes the doll, a glass shatters in the kitchen, seve... Continue reading »
A Far Better ThingH.G. Parry. Tor, $18.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-33418-3
Parry (The Magician’s Daughter) dazzles in this masterful fantasy riff on A Tale of Two Cities. Faeries whisked Sydney Carton away to the faerie realm when he was a baby, leaving behind a changeling named Charles Darnay. Now Sydney, who goes by his faerie name, Memory, returns to t... Continue reading »
Fan FavoriteAdrienne Gunn. Grand Central, $18.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6825-9
Gunn debuts with a hilarious romance exploring the ways in which pop culture influences every aspect of life, from the products people buy to their perceptions of love. Reality TV junkie Edie Pepper, 35, is decidedly unhappy with her life following a bad breakup and a series of even worse hookups. S... Continue reading »
Gilt FrameMatt Kindt and Margie Kraft Kindt. Dark Horse, $29.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-5067-4594-7
Harvey award winner Kindt (the Mind MGMT series) collaborates with his mother, Margie Kraft Kindt, on this charming cozy whodunit that builds an intricate case around the murder of a Parisian antiques dealer. Amateur sleuths Meredith “Merry” Pearson and her nephew Sam have a knack for stumbling onto... Continue reading »
Viscera: Eight Voices from PolandEdited by Mark Tardi, trans. from the Polish by Malgorzata Myk et al. Litmus, $22 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-933959-83-2
This luminous bilingual anthology features eight contemporary women poets from Poland: Anna Adamowicz, Maria Cyranowicz, Hanna Janczak, Natalia Malek, Joanna Oparek, Zofia Skrzypulec, Katarzyna Szaulińska, and Ilona Witkowska. The opening “Cantata” section presents selections from each, displaying t... Continue reading »
The Long March HomeMarcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop ApocalypseAlice Bolin. Mariner, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-344052-4
Essayist Bolin (Dead Girls) probes the intersection of technology, culture, and feminism in this ferociously smart collection. In “Enumerated Woman,” she argues that using Fitbits or other devices to track steps, calorie intake, and other data is a manifestation of a “postfeminist” ideal th... Continue reading »
Kawaii Appliqué Quilts from Japan: How One Country’s Love of All Things Tiny Powers Today’s Most Intricate Quilts (with 5 Projects from Top Designers)Naomi Ichikawa and Teresa Duryea Wong. Schiffer, $34.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7643-6925-4
Ichikawa, publisher of Quilt Diary Japan magazine, and art historian Wong (Sewing and Survival) serve up an enchanting celebration of kawaii (“small and cute”) quilts, which are characterized by their intricately detailed scenes featuring tiny, cartoon-like figures. Delvin... Continue reading »
Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the PresentJohn Tolan. Princeton Univ, $29.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-69126-353-3
Historian Tolan (Faces of Muhammad) traces in this vibrant and sweeping survey the 1,400-year evolution of Islam. Stressing Islam’s conceptual unity (“we are one umma”) and diverse reality, he tells its history by stitching together the stories of key figures. Among them are Um Waraqa, a wo... Continue reading »
The Case of the Contraband Closet (Bubblegum Shoes #1)Goldy Moldavsky. Random House, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-81376-8
Moldavsky (Of Earthly Delights) makes her middle grade debut in this sharp series starter about an amateur detective who reveres adult investigators from classic noir movies. New Jersey seventh grader Maya’s snooping lives in infamy, especially since an incident severed her friendship with ... Continue reading »
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