Hot News This Week
March 9, 2023
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A major profile of award-winning author Maryse Condé ran in the New York Times today. The Gospel According to the New World, her new novel published this week by World Editions, “feels like a capstone work,” according to the piece, and “Condé is finally receiving the acclaim her wide-ranging body of work deserves.”
Read more about Condé’s “lively and subversive vision” centering Caribbean life and the Black diaspora via the Book Review and a starred review in Publishers Weekly.
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| | Just a Mother
by Roy Jacobsen, trans. Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
Biblioasis • March 2023 • 9781771965187
“This post war chronicle of Ingrid and her life as the matriarch of Barrøy island is stunning in its simplicity. The everyday and the mundane are captured with care and detail that bring everything to life.” — Jude Sales, Readers’ Books (Sonoma, CA)
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| Celebrating International Women’s Day
Words Without Borders recognized International Women’s Day yesterday with a great list of upcoming books written and translated by women, including four Consortium titles:
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| Leadership Skills and Business Advice from a Former Google VP
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, March 14.
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★ “An engaging, distinctly hip-hop style . . . The Public Enemy mastermind combines art and hip-hop rhymes to provide his compelling, personal views on the chaotic years between 2020 and 2022.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “A subtle and nuanced work . . .This book follows several generations of one family—as well as a few others in their orbit—from the aftermath of World War I into the early days of the 21st century.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “In Özlü’s posthumous English-language debut, a young woman describes her 1950s childhood and her treatment for mental illness. . . . The edition includes a magnificent introduction from Ayşegül Savaş, who puts Özlü (1943–1986) in a lineage with Italo Svevo and Franz Kafka and praises her frank approach to sexuality.” — Publishers Weekly
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“The book’s 472 pages of subcultural excavation are part punk zine, part queer avant-garde history, a testament to cross-generational solidarity as the AIDS crisis persisted.” — The T List (T: The New York Times Style Magazine)
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“When it comes to keeping you guessing, Sarah Pinsker is no slouch. . . . Pinsker’s characters always make the best of tricky situations, which only makes their struggles in her topsy-turvy worlds more heartbreaking.” — Washington Post
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Atomic Family
by Ciera Horton McElroy
Blair • February 2023 • 9781949467949
★ “McElroy’s powerful debut evokes the atmosphere of early 1960’s American Cold War anxiety with the tragic story of a family living near a South Carolina bomb plant.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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A Warbler’s Journey by Scott Weidensaul, illus. Nancy Lane (Gryphon Press), is a winner of the John Burroughs Association’s 2023 Riverby Award for exceptional nature books for young readers.
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