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

Publishing This Week View as Webpage Hello, 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. More about how we pick and rate books. 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. Read More Reader Reviews A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel by Douglas Westerbeke Debut Author On sale Apr 2 from Avid Reader Press Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving. Read More Enter to Win (ends April 1) 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. Read More 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. Read More 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 Read More 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. Read More 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 Read More 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. Read More 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. Read More 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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