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Hello,
We found 21 new books of note to bring to your attention this week, including The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina which BookBrowse members reviewed very favorably for our early reader program, First Impressions. This international bestseller is set in the aftermath of Japan's devastating 2011 tsunami. It's one of 11 debuts in this issue; there are also new works from Imbolo Mbue and Walter Isaacson.
Enjoy!
Davina Morgan-Witts, Editor
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This Week's New and Notable Books
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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”.
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The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World: A Novel
by Laura Imai Messina
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from The Overlook Press
Genre: Novels. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.6/5
The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected "wind" phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami.
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American Betiya
by Anuradha D. Rajurkar
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from Knopf Books for Young Readers
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Fans of Sandhya Menon, Erika Sanchez and Jandy Nelson will identify with this luminous story of a young artist grappling with first love, family boundaries and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship.
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Brood
by Jackie Polzin
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from Doubleday
Genre: Novels. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
An exquisite new literary voice - wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout - depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.
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Edie Richter is Not Alone
by Rebecca Handler
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from The Unnamed Press
Genre: Novels. 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Funny, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth, Australia.
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How Beautiful We Were
by Imbolo Mbue
On sale Mar 9 from Random House
Genre: Novels. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.
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My Heart
by Semezdin Mehmedinovic
On sale Mar 9 from Catapult
Genre: Novels. 204 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
"Today, it seems, was the day I was meant to die." When a writer suffers a heart attack at the age of fifty, he must confront his mortality in a country that is not his native home.
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Perfect on Paper
by Sophie Gonzales
On sale Mar 9 from Wednesday Books
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
In Sophie Gonzales' Perfect on Paper, Leah on the Offbeat meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by the hot guy to help him get his ex back
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The Arsonists' City
by Hala Alyan
On sale Mar 9 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre: Novels. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home.
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The Immortal Boy
by Francisco Montaña Ibáñez
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from Levine Querido
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Two intertwining stories of Bogotá.
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The Recent East
by Thomas Grattan
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from MCD
Genre: Novels. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
An extraordinary family saga following a mother and two teens as they navigate a new life in East Germany.
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The Plum Trees
by Victoria Shorr
On sale Mar 9 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A poignant tale about one woman's quest to recover her family's history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust.
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Love Like That
by Emma Duffy-Comparone
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A joyfully subversive and moving debut collection of stories about brilliant, broken women that are just the right amount wrong.
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Sarahland
by Sam Cohen
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists - almost all of whom are named Sarah.
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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
by Jess Zimmerman
On sale Mar 9 from Beacon Press
Genre: Short Stories/Essays. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more "monstrous" version of feminism.
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The Stills: The Kinship Series #3
by Jess Montgomery
On sale Mar 9 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Mysteries. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
With compassion and insight, Jess Montgomery weaves a gripping mystery and portrait of community in The Stills, the powerful third novel in the Kinship series.
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I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement
by Jessica Zucker
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from Feminist Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson
On sale Mar 9 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 560 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
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Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
by Michelle Nijhuis
On sale Mar 9 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement - told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it.
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from Bold Type Books
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos -- and a call for a more just practice of science.
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The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley
by Wesley Morgan
Debut Author
On sale Mar 9 from Random House
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 672 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
When we think of the war in Afghanistan, chances are we're thinking of a small, remote corner of the country where American military action has been concentrated: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan provinces.
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The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
by Brian Alexander
On sale Mar 9 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises.
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