Publishing This Week: Scatterlings by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

Publishing This Week

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This week brings just three new and notable books in our last issue of Publishing This Week for 2022, including Scatterlings by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe, which apparently has the high honor of being South Africa's most awarded debut title. BookBrowse members who reviewed it for our early reader program, First Impressions, rated it a solid 4.1-stars.

Publishing This Week will be back in your inbox on Monday, January 2. In the meantime, I’ve included at the bottom a link to our January previews -- we currently have 60+ notable books on our radar, with more to be added between now and then.

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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. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

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Scatterlings: A Novel
by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

Debut Author
On sale Dec 13 from HarperVia
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.1/5

A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South Africa—that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealing the story of one family's scattered souls in the wake of history.

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Rubble of Rubles
by Josip Novakovich

On sale Dec 13 from Dzanc Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 200 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From Man Booker International Prize finalist Josip Novakovich comes a satiric novel with teeth - a tale of Russia in the early aughts, perfect for fans of Dostoevsky and Gary Shteyngart.

A Mother Would Know: A Novel
by Amber Garza

On sale Dec 13 from Mira
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A mother questions everything she knows about her son when a local woman is found dead.

View all 3 new and notable books publishing this week

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