Publishing This Week: Colleen Oakley, Jess Row, Jeannette Walls and Victor LaValle

Publishing This Week View as Webpage Hello, This week's 21 notable new books include novels from Jess Row, Jeannette Walls, Victor LaValle, and Colleen Oakley, whose The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise proved a hit with the great majority of the 73 members who reviewed it for BookBrowse's early reader program First Impressions. We also cover seven works of nonfiction and three debut novels. As always, you'll find brief details on ten books below (if we include more, some email services will cut the message short) and information on all, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu). Our "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists. So, this is the place to be if you want to see what's coming soon or look back to previous months; you can sort each month by publication date, genre and title. 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. You can see them all in our "What's New" section. More about how we pick and rate books. The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley On sale Mar 28 from Berkley Books Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 Members' Rating: 4.3/5 A "wildly surprising, entertaining" (Jodi Picoult) novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman on the run from the law, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Read More Reader Reviews Saints of the Household by Ari Tison Debut Author On sale Mar 28 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 320 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer - that will take your breath away. Read More The New Earth: A Novel by Jess Row On sale Mar 28 from Ecco Genre: Literary Fiction. 592 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row Read More Hang the Moon: A Novel by Jeannette Walls On sale Mar 28 from Scribner Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Read More A Brief History of Living Forever: A Novel by Jaroslav Kalfar On sale Mar 28 from Little Brown & Company Genre: Speculative, Alt. History. 320 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 In this "ingenious, funny, and chilling" novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from the author of Spaceman of Bohemia, two long-lost siblings risk everything to save their mother from oblivion in an authoritarian near-future America obsessed with digital consciousness and eternal life—a story that "packs a walloping punch" (Esquire). Read More Spin by Rebecca Caprara On sale Mar 28 from Atheneum Books for Young Readers Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 400 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 The Song of Achilles and Circe get a sapphic, young adult twist in this gorgeously lush, feminist retelling of the myth of Arachne spun in moving verse. Read More White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link On sale Mar 28 from Random House Genre: Short Stories. 272 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world, from one of today's finest short story writers—MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble. Read More Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell On sale Mar 28 from Penguin Press Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 464 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human. Read More Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline T Geronimus On sale Mar 28 from Little Brown & Company Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 368 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, "monumental" book (Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning) exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people. Read More Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future by Mya-Rose Craig On sale Mar 28 from Celadon Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 304 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. 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