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December 15, 2022
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“I learned so much about the moon from this lovely book! A gently illuminating (pun intended) introduction to lunar phases, and unlike most moon nonfiction, including instructions on where and when to look for the moon in the sky depending on the phase.”—Hannah DeCamp, Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)
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Editors’ Choice and Critics’ Picks in the New York Times
Two Consortium books are slated to appear as Editors’ Choice picks in the New York Times Book Review: Elisa Shua Dusapin’s novel The Pachinko Parlor, praised in the recent NYTBR review for its “delicate translation” by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, is an Editors’ Choice pick this week, and set to appear as a selection in the December 25 issue is Mircea Cartarescu’s novel Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter. A glowing review of Solenoid will appear in this weekend’s Book Review, in which critic Dustin Illingworth hails the work as “an instant classic of literary body horror.”
The Pachinko Parlor
by Elisa Shua Dusapin, trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Open Letter • September 2022 • 9781948830614
Solenoid
by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Deep Vellum Publishing • October 2022 • 9781646052028
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More Best Books of the Year
With year-end lists rolling in, we’re keeping tabs on all the books featured from Consortium publishers. Browse more 2022 coverage highlights, and check out what’s new this week:
Booklist, “Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2022”
CrimeReads, “The Best Critical Nonfiction / Biography Books of 2022”
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Dec. 20.
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| | Tell the Rest
by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Akashic Books • March 2023 • 9781636140797
★ “Two conversion therapy survivors go back to the site of their trauma, hoping the truth will set them free. . . . This satisfyingly nuanced story tackles sexuality and spiritual abuse, offering connection and redemption.”—Kirkus Reviews
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★ “In this darkly humorous caper, the terrific sequel to 2021’s Crocodile Tears, Uruguayan author Rosende expertly juggles the different points of view of various amoral characters.”—Publishers Weekly
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★ “Urgent, sobering reading.”—Kirkus Reviews
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| | Case Study
by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Biblioasis • November 2022 • 9781771965200
“With its layers of imposture and unreliability, the novel suggests that our personhood is far more malleable than we believe.”—New Yorker
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| | The Thorn Puller
by Hiromi Ito, trans. Jeffrey Angles
Stone Bridge Press • December 2022 • 9781737625308
“Absurdly comedic and heartbreaking . . . The Thorn Puller is an enjoyable and affecting narrative about the meaning of living and aging in our globalized era.”—Lion's Roar
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New Digital Review Copies
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Team Photograph
by Lauren Haldeman
Sarabande Books • November 2022 • 9781956046007
“In this book, Haldeman mingles personal history with the Civil War ghosts that visited her childhood bedroom at night.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
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Three authors from Consortium publishers are interviewed for the annual debut poets feature in Poets & Writers: Katie Marya (Sugar Work, Alice James Books), Chia-Lun Chang (Prescribee, Nightboat Books), and Nicholas Goodly (Black Swim, Copper Canyon Press).
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On Browsing
by Jason Guriel
Biblioasis • November 2022 • 9781771965101
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