Hot News This Week
February 8, 2024
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| | The Innocents
by Bridget Walsh
Gallic Books • March 2024 • 9781913547523
“Walsh’s thrillers are a bloody (literally) joy to read. Victorian London gets very rough, but the writing is clean, well sequenced, and expertly paced, with fascinating, convincing characters. . . . Being charmed and thrilled at once leads to quite a lovely surprise: horrid deaths can yield happy endings.” — Tim McCarthy, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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| | Mirror Nation
by Don Mee Choi
Wave Books • April 2024 • 9781950268931
“An amazing book. No one does it like Don Mee Choi.” — Daniel Yadin, Book Club Bar (New York City, NY)
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| Read This Next: Cormac James’s Contemplative Novel Set in the ICU
On February 5, author Katie Kitamura reviewed Cormac James’s Trondheim for the New York Times Book Review. Kitamura describes it as a “contemplative” novel that “delicately and deeply probes the mothers and their relationship.” As the story progresses—involving “a child in a coma, the twisting anxiety of the ICU, and the potentially irreparable fracturing of a relationship”—Kitamura notes that “questions emerge about faith, superstition and the possibility of miracles.” Kirkus Reviews gave Trondheim a starred review and named it one of the most anticipated books of 2024.
Trondheim
by Cormac James
Bellevue Literary Press • February 2024 • 9781954276239
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| Headed to Winter Institute?
Consortium publishers, authors, reps, and staff are headed to Cincinnati for Winter Institute, and we’d love to see you there. Look out for numerous titles from Consortium publishers in the Galley Room, plus author receptions with:
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Feb. 13.
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| | The Understory
by Saneh Sangsuk, trans. Mui Poopoksakul
Deep Vellum Publishing • March 2024 • 9781646052752
★ “This is a captivating and delightful work. A charming, engrossing, profound exploration of the transformative power of stories. . . . Sangsuk’s novel, translated from the Thai by Poopoksakul, introduces us to a nonagenarian monk named Luang Paw Tien, who shares fantastical accounts of jungle life in Thailand.” — Kirkus Reviews
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“This fascinating collection of essays is part memoir, part cookbook and part epicurean treatise—and employs Nigerian cuisine as a framework for analyzing Nigerian society, culture and folklore. . . . Aribisala’s prose is energetic, adroit, a joy to read.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Wild Geese
by Soula Emmanuel
Feminist Press • September 2023 • 9781558610132
“Soula Emmanuel’s gut-wrenching and lyrical Wild Geese uses the present tense to etch five life-changing days into the reader’s heart. . . . Books like Wild Geese and Mrs. S offer ways that evade the commercialization of queer and trans life.” — The Baffler
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“40 different recipes designed to enhance every moment of a vacation from brunch to breakfast via sundowners and sharpeners with the most stylish form of libation. The illustrations are by Isabelle Feliu, whose colorful designs bring these cocktails to life with a delightful whimsicality.” — Forbes
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| New Digital Review Copies
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“In this small but gutting work of memoir-meets-biography, Colombian journalist Paula Delgado-King chronicles two lives that intersect in violence. . . . The author’s resulting account is visceral, a clear-eyed account of the utterly human impact wrought by war.” — Elle
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Locus Magazine’s annual recommended reading list includes titles from Beehive Books, CAEZIK, Rosarium Publishing, and Small Beer Press.
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Love Novel
by Ivana Sajko, trans. Mima Simic
Biblioasis • February 2024 • 9781771965989
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