Publishing This Week: All the Debuts

Publishing This Week

Hello,

This week we bring you 19 new books of particular note including A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago, The Missing Piece by John Lescroart, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Every by Dave Eggers, and eight debuts. You can read about all the books on BookBrowse at bookbrowse.com/browse/ptw, and below are the eight debuts.

Enjoy!

Davina Morgan-Witts
BookBrowse Publisher

This Week's New and Notable Books

There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.

Chouette
by Claire Oshetsky

Debut Author
On sale Nov 16 from Ecco
Genre: Novels. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis.

Love in the Big City
by Sang Young Park

Debut Author
On sale Nov 16 from Grove Press
Genre: Novels. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul.

The Teller of Secrets: A Novel
by Bisi Adjapon

Debut Author
On sale Nov 16 from Harper Via
Genre: Novels. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this stunning debut novel - a tale of self-discovery and feminist awakening - a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid the political upheaval of late 1960s postcolonial Ghana begins to question the hypocrisy of her patriarchal society, and the restrictions and unrealistic expectations placed on women.

The Wedding Party
by Liu Xinwu

Debut Author
On sale Nov 16 from AmazonCrossing
Genre: Novels. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this sprawling, award-winning novel, celebrated Chinese writer Liu Xinwu cordially invites you to an epic, riotous, and moving neighborhood feast.

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011
by Edith Schloss

Debut Author
On sale Nov 16 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of the group that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York.

The Power of Women: A Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing
by Denis Mukwege

Debut Author
On sale Nov 16 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength, and power.

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
by Mayukh Sen

Debut Author
On sale Nov 16 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers.

Galloway: Life In a Vanishing Landscape
by Patrick Laurie

Debut Author
On sale Nov 16 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

On the land of his ancestors in Scotland, a young farmer struggles to find a balance between farming, the conservation of wild, and human culture as he establishes a herd of heritage cattle.

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