Hot News This Week
February 29, 2024
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| On Sunday, author Salman Rushdie shared news on X/Twitter of Colum McCann and Diane Foley’s “spectacular” American Mother, out next Tuesday from Etruscan Press.
The book is a Kirkus Reviews top pick for March, and PEOPLE announced this week that Jamie Lee Curtis will narrate the audiobook. For more, read about American Mother in the Boston Globe and watch Christiane Amanpour’s interview with McCann and Foley for CNN.
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| | American Mother
by Colum McCann and Diane Foley
Etruscan Press • March 2024 • 9798985882452
“A perfect first book for 2024. The urgent story of unimaginable grace in the face of unimaginable loss. Foley, clearly a force of nature in her own right, is expertly aided by McCann, one of the great writers of moral fiction in our century.” — Bridget Piekarz, The Book Cellar (Chicago, IL)
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| Warren Buffett on the Best-Selling Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Publishers Weekly also featured Munger’s book in their “Behind the Bestsellers” column this week, noting that it debuted on their hardcover nonfiction list at #7 for February 11 – 17. Since its publication in December, Poor Charlie’s Almanack has appeared on bestseller lists issued by the ABA, BookScan, Bookshop.org, USA Today, plus MIBA and SCIBA. The next reprint for the title will reach warehouses in early March.
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, March 5.
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★ “Dazzling, magical narratives, full of delight and sorrow. . . . Crujido’s surreal, romantic stories about an apartment building’s residents offer a dash of magical realism and wonder to their Pacific Northwest settings.” — Kirkus Reviews
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| | Cecilia
by K-Ming Chang
Coffee House Press • May 2024 • 9781566897075
★ “[Chang] explores the ways in which the body can elicit both desire and disgust, and offers an original look at the volatility of a teen friendship. It’s another high-water mark from a prolific and provocative author.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Big Mall
by Kate Black
Coach House Books • February 2024 • 9781552454725
“An examination of adolescence and death and consumption and spectacle, Big Mall ponders why the mall makes us feel good, and bad. Much of the book is introspective; some of it looks outward at the cultural forces that spread this particular facet of American commerce across the globe.” — Washington Post
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“Modha’s passion for sharing Indian vegetarian soul food shines with a kind of authenticity that can only come from honoring who she is and what she personally loves to eat.” — Food Network
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| New Digital Review Copies
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The Singularity
by Balsam Karam, trans. Saskia Vogel
Feminist Press • January 2024 • 9781558611931
“Haunting and unforgettable . . . a gut-wrenching look at immigration and loss.” — Nikita Imafidon, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
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Love Novel
by Ivana Sajko, trans. Mima Simic
Biblioasis • February 2024 • 9781771965989
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