Publishing This Week: Lionel Shriver , Rivka Galchen and Tiya Miles

Publishing This Week

Hello,

First off, a correction and apology: In last week's issue I told you that The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray was publishing imminently. I was wrong, it was due to publish on June 1 but got pushed back to June 29 -- so expect a "publishing this week" reprise in three weeks time.

This week brings 15 new and notable books. You'll find 10 below and a link at the bottom to view all on BookBrowse. I personally recommend Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen, a surprisingly funny (particularly given its subject matter) historically based interpretation of the real-life trial of Katherina, an illiterate widow and mother of the astronomer Johannes Kepler. If you prefer nonfiction, you might want to check out Ulinka Rublack 2015 book on the same topic.

Enjoy!

Davina, 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”.

One Two Three
by Laurie Frankel

On sale Jun 8 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Novels. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club pick, comes a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again.

Should We Stay or Should We Go
by Lionel Shriver

On sale Jun 8 from Harper
Genre: Novels. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief.

The Fugitivities
by Jesse McCarthy

Debut Author
On sale Jun 8 from Melville House
Genre: Novels. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one.

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
by Rivka Galchen

On sale Jun 8 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Historical Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.

What Beauty There Is
by Cory Anderson

Debut Author
On sale Jun 8 from Roaring Brook Press
Genre: Thrillers (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

What Beauty There Is is Cory Anderson's stunning YA novel about brutality and beauty, and about broken people trying to survive - perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Laura Ruby, and Meg Rosoff.

All Our Hidden Gifts
by Caroline O'Donoghue

On sale Jun 8 from Walker & Company
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Maeve's strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card - and then disappears.

The Hidden Palace : A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker

On sale Jun 8 from Harper
Genre: Fantasy. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I - the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world.

All That She Carried : The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles

On sale Jun 8 from Random House
Genre: History. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives.

Life on the Line : Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
by Emma Goldberg

Debut Author
On sale Jun 8 from Harper
Genre: Current Affairs. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening book in the tradition of both Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial and Scott Turow's One L.

Unwell Women : Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
by Elinor Cleghorn

Debut Author
On sale Jun 8 from Dutton
Genre: Science/Health. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health - from the earliest medical ideas about women's illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases - brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.

View all 15 new and notable books publishing this week

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