Publishing This Week: Ben Fountain, Thrity Umrigar, Vauhini Vara, Ken Follett, Ron Rash, Thrity Umrigar, Ayana Mathis and V. E. Schwab

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's two dozen new and notable books (including six nonfiction) are Devil Makes Three, Ben Fountain's second novel following his very well received 2012 debut, Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk; also This is Salvaged, a first short story collection from Vauhini Vara who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her debut novel, The Immortal King Rao.

Other notables to look out for include novels from Ron Rash, Thrity Umrigar, Ayana Mathis, C Pam Zhang, Ken Follett and V. E. Schwab.

As always, you'll find brief information on 10 books below and more about all of them, including early reviews, in our New This Week section.

Enjoy!

The BookBrowse Team

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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Devil Makes Three: A Novel
by Ben Fountain

On sale Sep 26 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 544 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.1/5

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk comes a brilliant and propulsive new novel about greed, power, and American complicity set in Haiti.

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The Caretaker: A Novel
by Ron Rash

On sale Sep 26 from Doubleday
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today" —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honor, and love.

The Unsettled: A Novel
by Ayana Mathis

On sale Sep 26 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival.

Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel
by C Pam Zhang

On sale Sep 26 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Speculative. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world

The Fragile Threads of Power: Threads of Power #1
by V. E. Schwab

On sale Sep 26 from Tor Books
Genre: Fantasy. 656 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, opens another door to a new fantasy series set in the dazzling world of Shades of Magic. Prepare for tangled schemes and perilous adventures with friends old and new in The Fragile Threads of Power.

The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
by Lisa M. Hamilton

On sale Sep 26 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Biography. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, The Hungry Season is an unforgettable portrait of resilience: a nonfiction drama ranging from the mist-covered mountains of Laos to the sunbaked flatlands of Fresno, California, tracing one woman's journey to overcome the wounds inflicted by war and family alike.

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson

On sale Sep 26 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: History & Current Affairs. 496 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America's most controversial weapon.

Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
by Azam Ahmed

On sale Sep 26 from Random House
Genre: Current Affairs. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a global investigative correspondent for The New York Times

The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning

On sale Sep 26 from Blackstone Publishing
Genre: History. 274 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history.

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