Publishing This Week: Curtis Sittenfield's rereleased rom com, K. Ancrum's exploration of Icarus, and 15 more

Publishing This Week

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This week we have 17 new and notable books publishing, including two of our BookBrowse Book Club books! As a reminder, these Book Clubs are open to anyone to participate, but our US members have the opportunity to request free copies of the book club books.

A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda explores the ties and fractures of a close knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police. Publishers Weekly writes, "Gowda's light touch is refreshing and graced with nuance, allowing her to find the truth in a wide range of perspectives."

We also have a paperback release of Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, which Kirkus calls "romance artfully and entertainingly deconstructed".

You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section. For more soon to publish books, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section.

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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.

More about how we pick and rate books.

A Great Country: A Novel
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

On sale Mar 26 from Mariner Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police.

Romantic Comedy: A Novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld

On sale Mar 26 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.

Chronically Dolores
by Maya Van Wagenen

Debut Author
On sale Mar 26 from Dutton for Young Readers
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Making her fiction debut, Maya Van Wagenen, bestselling author of Popular, tells Dolores's story with humor, heartache, and an occasional bit of telenovela flair.

Icarus
by K. Ancrum

On sale Mar 26 from HarperTeen
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he's been stealing from—think Portrait of a Thief for YA readers.

Like Happiness: A Novel
by Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Debut Author
On sale Mar 26 from Celadon
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer.

Glorious Exploits: A Novel
by Ferdia Lennon

Debut Author
On sale Mar 26 from Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history.

Lost Man's Lane: A Novel
by Scott Carson

On sale Mar 26 from Emily Bestler Books (Atria)
Genre: Mysteries. 528 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding supernatural thriller from bestselling author Scott Carson.

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
by Keith O'Brien

On sale Mar 26 from Pantheon Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From New York Times bestselling author Keith O'Brien, a captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures - baseball immortal Pete Rose - and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century

Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
by Kristine S. Ervin

Debut Author
On sale Mar 26 from Counterpoint Press
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark, a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting one woman's search for identity alongside her family's decades-long quest to identify the two men who abducted—and murdered—her mother

An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
by Matthew Stewart

On sale Mar 26 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.

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