Publishing This Week: Julia Alvarez, Amor Towles, Don Winslow, and 30 more

Publishing This Week

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This week we have 33 new and notable books publishing, including two that explore the bounds of freedom and the human spirit in very different ways.

The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim, offers a hauntingly poetic look into a small South Korean community's life within the confines of a reformatory center. It's a family drama and coming-of-age story that unearths a dark segment of history, in what Booklist calls "a wrenching, haunting read."

In contrast, A Short Walk Through a Wide World the dazzling debut from Douglas Westerbeke, invites us on an epic adventure with a character forced into perpetual motion. Chasing the globe to outrun a mysterious curse, it's a novel that marries the urgency of survival with the freedom of endless movement.

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.

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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The Stone Home: A Novel
by Crystal Hana Kim

On sale Apr 2 from William Morrow
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.3/5

A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center.

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I Cheerfully Refuse
by Leif Enger

On sale Apr 2 from Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and "formidably gifted" (Chicago Tribune) author of Peace Like a River Leif Enger.

The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel
by Julia Alvarez

On sale Apr 2 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland of the Dominican Republic.

Table for Two: Fictions
by Amor Towles

On sale Apr 2 from Viking
Genre: Short Stories. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories, including a novella featuring one of his most beloved characters

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
by Becca Rothfeld

Debut Author
On sale Apr 2 from Metropolitan Books
Genre: Essays. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.

Like Love: Essays and Conversations
by Maggie Nelson

On sale Apr 2 from Graywolf Press
Genre: Essays. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists

No Son of Mine: A Memoir (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)
by Jonathan Corcoran

Debut Author
On sale Apr 1 from University Press of Kentucky
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 248 pages
Critics' Opinion:

Through grief, anger, questioning, and growth, Jonathan Corcoran explores the entwined yet separate histories and identities of his mother and himself.

A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression-One Song at a Time
by Sheryl Kaskowitz

On sale Apr 2 from Pegasus Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The remarkable story of a hidden New Deal program that tried to change America and end the Great Depression using folk music, laying the groundwork for the folk revival and having a lasting impact on American culture.

The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
by Stefanos Geroulanos

On sale Apr 2 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 512 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others.

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