{"id":259240,"date":"2023-12-28T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/?p=259240"},"modified":"2024-01-02T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:16:00","slug":"75-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/75-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eight years ago, I pulled together a list of upcoming books of interest by women of color because, as a novelist, reader, and intermittent critic, I had trouble finding as many as I\u2019d hoped. I published that list in Electric Literature<\/em>, thinking it might be useful to others as well; the piece spread widely, and I heard it helped inform other publications\u2019 books coverage, syllabi, and book-prize considerations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, I\u2019ve compiled a list along these lines each year, and though books by us have become more available and visible, it\u2019s still true that, for instance, a disproportionately large majority of books published by the Big Five\u2014the publishers that dominate the book market\u2014are by white writers. This is also a time when a lot of U.S. schools and public libraries, under severe pressure from right-wing extremists, are banning<\/a> and censoring books by people of color, and by queer and trans writers. The number of proscribed books is growing at a shocking rate. Dissenters are losing jobs. Here and there, my first novel and an anthology I coedited have been banned; in 2024, I\u2019ll publish my queer, sexually celebratory second novel, Exhibit<\/a><\/em>, and am already bracing myself for impending bans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I maintain the hope that, one day, American letters will be so inclusive that a piece like this will no longer be useful. But for now, here are some 2024 books I\u2019m excited to read. This is one person\u2019s list, skewed by, in part, an incomplete knowledge of forthcoming titles. Without a doubt, I\u2019m missing excellent books. If you\u2019re looking forward to a book not mentioned here and wish to support it, please consider preordering it from your local bookstore, requesting it from the library, talking about it, or all of the above. Any of this can be enormously helpful to books and their writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some brief notes on methodology: this piece is necessarily front-loaded toward the earlier part of the year, as there isn\u2019t as much information yet about later titles. Much as I love poetry, I\u2019m less up to date on what\u2019s forthcoming in poetry, so I\u2019ve focused on prose. The term \u201cof color\u201d is flawed and ever-shifting. In the past, a couple of versions of this list included nonbinary writers; Electric Literature<\/em> and I then heard from a number of nonbinary writers that it can be preferable to avoid grouping nonbinary people with women. I\u2019ve since kept this list to women: cis women and trans women, along with nonbinary women who assented to having their books included in this space. The vast majority of nonbinary writers and readers we\u2019ve heard from have continued to find this preferable. Electric Literature<\/em> will soon publish a piece about anticipated books by LGBTQIA+ writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m so glad about the novels, memoirs, essay collections, and other marvels coming our way; please join me in celebrating these books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Fetishist<\/a> <\/em>by Katherine Min<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I met Katherine Min a decade ago at a gathering of Korean American writers, and was deeply sorry to hear, in 2019, that she\u2019d died much too early. She left behind an unfinished novel that her daughter, Kayla Min Andrews, has completed. The resulting collaboration, The Fetishist<\/em>, about an ill-conceived kidnapping, is astonishing. I\u2019m thankful this book exists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

A Short History of Trans Misogyny<\/a> <\/em>by Jules Gill-Peterson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve followed historian Jules Gill-Peterson\u2019s remarkable writing for a while, and in this book, Gill-Peterson ranges from New Orleans to Paris to the Philippines \u201cin search of the emergence of modern trans misogyny.\u201d \u201cThis is a sharply argued work by a brilliant thinker,\u201d Shon Faye says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Behind You Is the Sea<\/a> <\/em>by Susan Darraj<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

From the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction comes a debut novel depicting a Palestinian American community in Baltimore. According to Etaf Rum, Behind You is the Sea<\/em> \u201cfearlessly confronts stereotypes about Palestinian culture, weaving a remarkable portrait of life’s intricate moments, from joyous weddings to heart-wrenching funerals, from shattered hearts to hidden truths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts<\/a> <\/em>by <\/em>Crystal Wilkinson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts<\/em>, Crystal Wilkinson cements herself as one of the most dynamic book makers in our generation and a literary giant. Utter genius tastes like this,\u201d says Kiese Laymon. Wilkinson brings together kitchen ghosts, family photos, and stories of Black Appalachians in this part memoir, part cookbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Storm We Made<\/a> <\/em>by Vanessa Chan<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For months, I\u2019ve heard about and looked forward to this debut novel featuring a Malay spy who collaborates with invading occupiers during World War II, and it\u2019s almost here. Dawnie Walton applauds The Storm We Made<\/em> as a \u201cfearless, gripping, morally complex story\u201d imbued with \u201can indelible spirit of resistance that never lets you forget the light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Come and Get It<\/a> <\/em>by Kiley Reid<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCome and Get It<\/em> is an engrossing novel full of intimately portrayed characters and the seemingly innocuous choices that lead to life-altering mistakes,\u201d says Elizabeth Acevedo. Booker Prize-listed Kiley Reid\u2019s second novel follows Millie Cousins, a senior at the University of Arkansas, offered an opportunity that ends up imperiling her hopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Your Utopia<\/a><\/em> by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bora Chung\u2019s previous story collection, Cursed Bunny<\/a><\/em>, a finalist for a National Book Award translated by the celebrated Anton Hur, is one of the more unforgettable and surprising books I\u2019ve read in recent years. Chung and Hur are back with more stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Dead in Long Beach, California<\/a> <\/em>by Venita Blackburn<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dead in Long Beach, California<\/em>, <\/em>from Young Lions finalist Venita Blackburn, is centered on a woman who discovers her dead brother\u2019s body then begins replying to texts as him. \u201cYou can try bracing yourself for the ride this story takes you on, but it’s best to just surrender. Your wig is going to fall off no matter what you do,\u201d says Saeed Jones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Broughtupsy<\/a><\/em> by Christina Cooke<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this novel, estranged sisters reconnect in Kingston to spread their younger brother\u2019s ashes. \u201cA luminous tale of a latter-day Antigone who navigates grief, love, death, sex, violence, language, queerness, race, and three countries with courage, joy, and a tender heart,\u201d says Stacey D\u2019Erasmo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

River East, River West<\/em><\/a> by Aube Rey Lescure<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Called a \u201creversal of the east-to-west immigrant narrative,\u201d this debut is set in 1985 Qingdao and 2007 Shanghai. Garth Greenwell says it\u2019s \u201ca moving portrait of the love between a mother and daughter\u201d in which \u201cfamiliar narratives of adolescence are scrambled across lines of class, race, and national difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Code Noir<\/a><\/em> by Canisia Lubrin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Canisia Lubrin, a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, has written a first book of fiction that \u201cdeparts from the infamous real-life \u2018Code Noir,\u2019 a set of historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire.\u201d The 1686 Code had 59 articles, and Lubrin\u2019s book includes 59 braided stories that Christina Sharpe praises for their \u201cformal inventiveness and sheer audaciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Whiskey Tender<\/a><\/em> by Deborah Jackson Taffa <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhiskey Tender<\/em> is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold, and beautifully told, like a drink you didn\u2019t know you were thirsty for. This book, never anything less than mesmerizing, is full of family stories and vital Native history,\u201d says Tommy Orange. A debut memoir from the director of the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both<\/a><\/em> by Mariah Stovall<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The profound\u2014and, I\u2019d argue, fictionally underexplored\u2014pain of a friendship breakup is at the core of this novel from Mariah Stovall: after a decade of estrangement, a former friend invites Khaki Oliver to a party for her child. According to Vauhini Vara, \u201cMariah Stovall’s prose sounds like driving in a car with your best friend, volume up high on your favorite song.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Almost Surely Dead<\/a><\/em> by Amina Akhtar<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Amina Akhtar, founding editor of The Cut<\/em>, has written a novel about a woman who, having gone missing for a year, becomes the subject of a true-crime podcast. \u201cPart thriller, part family saga, part supernatural horror, Almost Surely Dead<\/em> will surprise you in the best way possible and leave you thinking about this magnificent book for a long time after you\u2019re done,\u201d says Alex Segura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Praiseworthy<\/a><\/em> by Alexis Wright<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This epic novel from publisher New Directions begins with a cloud heralding an ecological crisis in Australia. Praiseworthy<\/em> is lauded by Australia\u2019s The Monthly<\/em> as \u201can astonishing and monumental masterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Acts of Forgiveness<\/a> <\/em>by Maura Cheeks <\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In Maura Cheeks\u2019s debut novel, America is waiting to see if the country\u2019s first woman president will pass a bill authorizing Black families to claim up to $175,000 if they can prove they\u2019re the descendants of slaves. \u201cMaura Cheeks extends humanity, depth, hope, and complexity to a part of the American experience that too often gets flattened into talking points. This book is a testament to the power of great fiction to lead us to a better understanding of the truth,\u201d says R. Eric Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Greta & Valdin<\/a><\/em> by Rebecca K Reilly<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A bestseller in New Zealand, Rebecca K Reilly\u2019s novel about queer siblings in a Maaori-Russian-Catalonian family is praised by Grant Ginder as a \u201cwholly original, laugh-until-you-ugly-cry-on-the-subway debut.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Where Rivers Part<\/a><\/em> by Kao Kalia Yang<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Kao Kalia Yang gives an account of her Hmong mother\u2019s journey from a Laotian village to a refugee camp, then to the United States. Where Rivers Part<\/em>, according to Vanessa Chan, is \u201can immense and important addition to the world\u2019s literature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

You Get What You Pay For<\/a><\/em> by Morgan Parker<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll read anything the virtuosic Morgan Parker writes, and this National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, essayist, and novelist is back with a memoir-in-essays combining criticism and personal anecdotes, and described as being \u201cas intimate as being in the room with Parker and her therapist.\u201d The essays explore topics including racist beauty standards, loneliness, and mischaracterizations of Serena Williams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Disability Intimacy<\/a><\/em> by Alice Wong<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The bestselling activist and writer Alice Wong has edited an anthology of first-person writing on disability, sex, and joy, a follow-up to the powerful Disability Visibility<\/a><\/em>. In her new book, writers delve into \u201ccaregiving, community, access, and friendship,\u201d offering \u201calternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Say Hello to My Little Friend<\/a><\/em> by Jennine Cap\u00f3 Crucet<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Since reading her story collection How to Leave Hialeah<\/a><\/em>, I\u2019ve relished Jennine Cap\u00f3 Crucet\u2019s wise, incisive, frequently hilarious writing. Say Hello to My Little Friend<\/em> features a failed Pitbull impersonator who crosses paths with an orca at the Miami Seaquarium. \u201cCrucet can make you cry before you\u2019ve even realized you\u2019ve become invested and make you laugh even through the hurt,\u201d Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Memory Piece<\/a><\/em> by Lisa Ko<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA group portrait of three women who wrest meaning from a world that is closing down around them, Memory Piece<\/em> is bright with defiance, intelligence, and stubborn love,\u201d says C Pam Zhang. I\u2019ve thought often of the National Book Award-listed Ko\u2019s first and admirable novel, The Leavers<\/a><\/em>, and have been waiting for her second book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Translator’s Daughter<\/a><\/em> by Grace Loh Prasad<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrace Loh Prasad interrogates the distance between the homes we have and the homes we long for with the compassion and precision of one who has spent her entire life attuned to language. \u2018We were always half a world apart,\u2019 she writes; her essays bridge that gap in innovative ways, using family photos, mythical women, and Taiwanese films,\u201d says Jami Nakamura Lin. The Translator’s Daughter<\/em> is a memoir relating Prasad\u2019s journey as an immigrant whose family was driven out of Taiwan under the threat of political persecution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

These Letters End in Tears<\/a><\/em> by Musih Tedji Xaviere<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In Cameroon, where being queer is legally punishable, a Christian girl and a Muslim girl fall in love. Soon Wiley calls this debut novel \u201can urgent and devastating story about the cost of living in a place that refuses to recognize your humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Manicurist’s Daughter<\/a><\/em> by Susan Lieu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Susan Lieu\u2019s mother, a Vietnamese refugee who set up nail salons in California, died from a botched abdominoplasty. After the funeral, Lieu wasn\u2019t allowed to talk about her mother nor what happened. Searching for answers, Lieu turns to depositions, the surgeon\u2019s family, and spirit channelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Thunder Song<\/a><\/em> by Sasha taq\u02b7s\u030c\u0259blu LaPointe<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thunder Son<\/em>g, <\/em>a collection of essays drawing on family archives and an ancestor\u2019s anthropological work, chronicles Sasha taq\u02b7s\u030c\u0259blu LaPointe\u2019s experiences as a queer indigenous woman. \u201cNone of Sasha\u2019s examinations fail to find truth: page after page, the intersections of family, heritage, history, and music build to countless transcendental moments for the reader, which is not only the magic of this book but a clear testament to Sasha\u2019s immense storytelling power,\u201d says Morgan Talty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Invisible Hotel<\/a><\/em> by Yeji Y. Ham<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

According to Kim Fu, \u201cThe Invisible Hotel<\/em> wrestles artfully with big, vital questions: How do we honor and care for our elders without reinforcing a cycle of generational trauma? How do we forge new, joyful paths without indulging in mass cultural amnesia or closing our eyes to a world on fire? That it does so in a surreal, riveting, keep-the-lights-on masterwork of horror is all the more extraordinary.\u201d The novel follows a South Korean woman in a small village who drives a North Korean refugee to visit a sibling in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Parasol Against the Axe<\/a><\/em> by Helen Oyeyemi<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Helen Oyeyemi\u2019s many fans will surely be thrilled by this new addition to her inventive oeuvre. Parasol Against the Axe<\/em> <\/strong>is <\/strong>described as a joyful novel about \u201ccompetitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Anita De Monte Laughs Last<\/a> <\/em>by Xochitl Gonzalez<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this widely anticipated sophomore book, the bestselling novelist Xochitl Gonzalez tells the story of a first-generation Ivy League student who comes upon the work of a gifted artist decades after her suspicious death. Robert Jones, Jr. calls the novel \u201crollicking, melodic, tender, and true\u201d and \u201coh so very wise.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

But the Girl<\/a><\/em> by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

But the Girl<\/em>, already published to acclaim in the U.K. and Australia, features a Malaysian Australian artist traveling to Scotland intending to write a Ph.D. on Sylvia Plath, plus a novel. Brandon Taylor, the book\u2019s acquiring editor in the U.S., says But the Girl<\/em> is a \u201cvivid novel of consciousness with a delightful sense of play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Starry Field<\/a><\/em> by Margaret Juhae Lee<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Juhae Lee combines interviews with her grandmother, investigative journalism, and archival research to learn more about her grandfather, a student revolutionary who died after protesting the Japanese government\u2019s occupation of Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Tree Doctor<\/a> <\/em>by Marie Mutsuki Mockett<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a gorgeous and completely unique novel, bristling with life like the garden it describes. It is melancholy, erotic, hopeful, meditative, frightening, and even funny\u2015a book about solitude that is never lonely, a book that is both timeless and utterly contemporary,\u201d says Lydia Kiesling. Marie Mockett\u2019s intriguing new novel brings together caretaking, ardor, a cherry tree, an arborist, and The Tale of Genji<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Great Divide<\/a><\/em> by Cristina Henr\u00edquez<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCristina Henr\u00edquez gives us cause to celebrate with this sweeping novel. It speeds us into a wild world of adventure and danger, epic visions of the creation of the Panama Canal,\u201d according to Luis Alberto Urrea. A third novel from the writer of the striking The Book of Unknown Americans<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Green Frog<\/a><\/em> by Gina Chung<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I rejoiced in Gina Chung\u2019s first novel, Sea Change<\/em>, and its tender story of a woman and a giant octopus. Chung\u2019s new book is a magic-imbued collection of fiction that Kali Fajardo-Anstine says is \u201cpulsating with heart and profound emotional intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Lessons for Survival<\/a><\/em> by Emily Raboteau<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lessons for Survival<\/em>, which mingles reportage, autobiography, and photography, is introduced as a \u201cseries of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises.\u201d Imani Perry says the American Book Award-winning Emily Raboteau \u201ctraverses generations and geographies, all the while caring for her children, and in so doing, teaches us that to \u2018mother\u2019 is to tend, to study, to nurture, and to hand over our most precious inheritances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

dear elia<\/a><\/em> by Mimi Kh\u00fac<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I grew up in a part of Los Angeles that was mostly Asian American, and didn\u2019t know anyone who so much as spoke about thinking of seeing a therapist until I went to college. Things have changed since then, but not close to enough; I\u2019m excited for Mimi Kh\u00fac\u2019s book, a series of letters described as work that \u201cbears witness to Asian American unwellness up close and invites readers to recognize in it the shapes and sources of their own unwellness.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Like Happiness<\/em><\/a> by Ursula Villarreal-Moura<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve anticipated Ursula Villarreal-Moura\u2019s debut novel since I first heard her read in 2018, and, at last, the book is almost here. Like Happiness <\/em>follows a woman living in the aftermath of a consuming, destructive relationship she once had with a legendary writer in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April <\/h3>\n\n\n
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I Just Keep Talking<\/a><\/em> by Nell Irvin Painter<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I Just Keep Talking<\/em> is comprised of the bestselling Nell Irvin Painter\u2019s essays on art, politics, and racism. “Consistently brilliant, restlessly curious and profoundly empathetic, Nell Irvin Painter’s voice is simply indispensable. This decades-spanning collection pulls together some of her most elegant, engaged and urgent work,\u201d Jelani Cobb says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Women! In! Peril!<\/a><\/em> by Jessie Ren Marshall<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Playwright Jessie Ren Marshall\u2019s debut collection of stories is said to be \u201cferociously feminist\u201d and \u201chilarious, heartbreaking, and defiantly optimistic.\u201d Vanessa Hua applauds the book\u2019s \u201cthrilling range of characters\u2014an android, space traveler, former ballerina, jilted wives and more\u2014in stories that examine race, gender, sexuality and other elements of identity with confidence and grace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Real Americans<\/a> <\/em>by Rachel Khong<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I had the deep pleasure of reading an early draft of Real Americans<\/em>, a shape-shifting, expansive wonder that, in its large-hearted investigations into fortune, luck, class, and trauma, spans countries, decades, and altered realities. It\u2019s an epic and splendid achievement from a writer whose work I\u2019ve loved for years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

I’ll Give You a Reason<\/a><\/em> by Annell L\u00f3pez<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

According to Nancy Jooyoun Kim, \u201cI\u2019ll Give You a Reason<\/em> is a rare page-turner of a collection: startlingly sensitive, oozing with compassion, and full of both gentle and explosive revelations about human nature, forgiveness, and the grace we sometimes fail to offer ourselves.\u201d These stories, about Dominican immigrants in Newark, New Jersey, have won the Feminist Press\u2019s Louise Meriwether First Book Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Stone Home<\/a><\/em> by Crystal Hana Kim<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I read the entirety of The Stone Home<\/em> during a recent flight to Seoul, unable to put it down, often crying. It\u2019s set in a South Korea of the 1980s, largely taking place in a \u201creformatory center\u201d for marginalized citizens, a state-sanctioned hell of terror and violence. The novel\u2019s portrayals of caretaking, mothering, and tenderness inside and despite the reformatory\u2019s walls are richly layered and intensely moving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Lantern and the Night Moths<\/a><\/em> by Yilin Wang<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Poet and translator Yilin Wang translates poems by five modernist Chinese writers, then accompanies the translations with her own essays on \u201cthe key themes and stylistic features of modern Sinophone poetry and on the art and craft of poetry translation.\u201d I\u2019ve admired Wang\u2019s translations of poetry, and look forward to reading their hybrid book as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Magical\/Realism<\/a><\/em> by Vanessa Ang\u00e9lica Villarreal<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve loved Vanessa Ang\u00e9lica Villarreal\u2019s poems, and, since I first heard about it, have eagerly awaited her debut book of prose. The collection, which with each essay attempts to \u201creimagine and re-world what has been lost,\u201d explores the healing potentials of fantasy in the midst of grief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Bite by Bite<\/a> <\/em>by Aimee Nezhukumatathil<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It might be evident by now that I tend to be drawn to the prose of poets, and the bestselling poet-essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil is back with a follow-up book of essays, this time centered on food and flavors including shaved ice, lumpia, mangoes, and vanilla. The collection also incorporates illustrations by Fumi Nakamura. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

But What Will People Say?<\/a><\/em> by Sahaj Kaur Kohli<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sahaj Kaur Kohli is a Washington Post<\/em> advice columnist and the founder of Brown Girl Therapy, a mental health community organization for the children of immigrants. She \u201crethinks traditional therapy and self-care models, creating much-needed space for those left out of the narrative\u201d with a debut that combines personal narrative, analysis, and research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

I’m a Fool to Want You<\/a><\/em> by Camila Sosa Villada, translated by Kit Maude<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A bestseller in Argentina, I’m a Fool to Want You<\/em> is the second book by the Premio Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz- and Grand Prix de l\u2019H\u00e9ro\u00efne Madame Figaro-winning Camila Sosa Villada to be translated into English. Hailed by Torrey Peters as \u201ca wise, uncommon, and bewitching storyteller,\u201d Sosa Villada\u2019s story collection promises to be formally original and imaginatively wide-ranging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Oye<\/a><\/em> by Melissa Mogollon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn emotional roller coaster of multigenerational chisme, Oye<\/em> jump-starts your heart in the same way the expletive piques your ear,\u201d according to Xochitl Gonzalez. A first novel including a familial crisis, the revelation of long-held secrets, and an approaching hurricane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of Time<\/a><\/em> by Kaliane Bradley<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this speculative, genre-mixing debut novel taking place in the near future, time travel is run by a bureaucracy. Max Porter calls it \u201cexciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender, and moving.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Wait<\/a><\/em> by Gabriella Burnham<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWait<\/em> simultaneously illuminates the precariousness of young womanhood and existing as an immigrant in the U.S., while showing the resourcefulness and strength needed to survive,\u201d says Daphne Palasi Andreades. A novel about a mother who\u2019s vanished and the sisters trying to bring her back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

How to Make Your Mother Cry<\/a><\/em> by Sejal Shah<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Short stories join imagined letters to a valued English teacher in this collection from interdisciplinary writer and artist Sejal Shah. \u201cHow to Make Your Mother Cry <\/em>is an incredible cross-cultural manifesto of word and body: What is home. What is mother. What is family. What is self. What is woman, and how do we story her,\u201d says Lidia Yuknavitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

See: Loss. See Also: Love.<\/em><\/a> by Yukiko Tominaga<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I have an abiding belief that punctuation marks, commas aside, are tragically underused in book titles\u2014colons aside, too, you might say, but those are usually only used before subtitles\u2014and am already delighted by the proliferation thereof in Yukiko Tominaga\u2019s novel. Tominaga\u2019s debut features Kyoko, a Japanese widow, raising her son Alex in San Francisco with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law, and is described as being \u201ctender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones<\/a><\/em> by Priyanka Mattoo<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Born in the Himalayas, writer-filmmaker Priyanka Mattoo and her family fled the region as a result of rising violence. Mattoo ended up residing at 32 subsequent addresses, an odyssey she chronicles in Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones<\/em>. \u201cPriyanka Mattoo has recreated the beloved, intoxicating Kashmir of her childhood in this beautiful memoir, and in doing so, renders the place immortal. I would follow Mattoo to the ends of the earth, because she would know what to eat there, and how to make a friend, and then sit me down and tell me a story,\u201d says Emma Straub. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Tehrangeles<\/a><\/em> by Porochista Khakpour<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Porochista Khakpour began Tehrangeles<\/em> in 2011, and this long-gestated novel is described as a \u201ctragicomic saga about high-functioning family dysfunction and the ever-present struggle to accept one\u2019s true self.\u201d The Milanis are fast-food heiresses in Los Angeles; the prospect of having their own reality television show, and the attendant potential fame, evoke the possibility that perhaps too many secrets will be exposed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Craft<\/a><\/em> by Ananda Lima<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Poet Ananda Lima\u2019s first book of prose, a story collection, starts with a writer who has sex with the devil, then proceeds to write stories for him. I\u2019m already enchanted by this idea, and Gwen Kirby calls the book \u201ca beautiful work of alchemy: strange and familiar, experimental and narrative, topical and timeless, heart-wrenching and wickedly funny.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Malas<\/a> <\/em>by Marcela Fuentes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A family living on the Texas-Mexico border contends with what might be a forty-year-old curse in this novel said to be \u201crich with cinematic details\u2014from dusty rodeos to the excitement of a Selena concert and the comfort of conjunto ballads played at family gatherings.\u201d According to Erika S\u00e1nchez, \u201cFuentes has achieved something rare and indelible with this story of complex women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Lucky Ones<\/a><\/em> by Zara Chowdhary<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Lucky Ones <\/em>is a memoir by a survivor of 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Ahmedabad, an Indian metropolis whose chief minister at the time, Narendra Modi, is now the prime minister of the country. \u201cA warning, thrown to the world, and a stunning debut\u2014Chowdhary is a much-needed new voice,\u201d says Alexander Chee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Colored Television<\/a><\/em> by Danzy Senna<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This comedic novel follows a novelist braving an ill-fated foray into Hollywood. I\u2019m a longtime fan of Danzy Senna\u2019s writing, and Rumaan Alam calls Colored Television<\/em> \u201ca riveting and exhilarating novel about making art and selling out, about being middle aged and precariously middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Midnight Rooms<\/a><\/em> by Donyae Coles<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In 1840s England, a man whisks his outsider bride, Orabella, to a family estate. Not permitted to leave the house unattended, and waking up in the morning covered in mysterious bruises, Orabella begins to realize the house is filled with dangers both human and ghostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Coin<\/a><\/em> by Yasmin Zaher<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A Palestinian woman becomes a teacher at a New York school for underprivileged boys, and gets involved in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags. \u201cLike Jean Rhys, Yasmin Zaher captures the outrageous loneliness of contemporary life, the gradual and total displacement of the human heart. This is a novel of wealth, filth, beauty, and grief told in clarion prose and with unbearable suspense,\u201d Hilary Leichter says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

A Thousand Times Before<\/a><\/em> by Asha Thanki<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Asha Thanki\u2019s A Thousand Times Before<\/em> is a saga relating the stories of three generations of women who inherit a magical tapestry \u201cthrough which each generation can experience the memories of those who came before her,\u201d along with an ability to reshape the world. With this novel, their debut, Thanki depicts decades of loss and power in Karachi, Gujarat, and Brooklyn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Docile<\/a><\/em> by Hyeseung Song<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A coming-of-age memoir and account of living with mental illness, Docile<\/em> <\/strong>is said to be for readers of Michelle Zauner\u2019s Crying in H Mart<\/em> and Cathy Park Hong\u2019s Minor Feelings<\/em>. The book is extolled by Kat Chow as \u201ca story of loneliness and searching that brims with radiant empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Lion Women of Tehran<\/a><\/em> by Marjan Kamali<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lion Women<\/em> of Tehran<\/em> is a novel about a consequential childhood friendship and eventual, terrible betrayal. Whitney Scharer calls Marjan Kamali\u2019s prose \u201cevocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Silken Gazelles<\/em> by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As a Jokha Alharthi enthusiast, I\u2019m glad we\u2019ll have a new novel from this formidable, International Booker Prize-winning writer and academic. Silken Gazelles<\/em> circles around two girls in Oman, and the book is being compared to Elena Ferrante\u2019s Neapolitan Novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Hypocrite<\/a><\/em> by Jo Hamya<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve admired Jo Hamya\u2019s writing, and will surely rush to read this novel featuring a young playwright on the verge of finding out what her novelist father will think of her new play, which is informed by a vacation they took years ago in Sicily. Katie Kitamura lauds Hamya\u2019s previous novel, Three Rooms<\/em>, as being \u201cprecisely and beautifully rendered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Volcano Daughters<\/a><\/em> by Gina Mar\u00eda Balibrera<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sisters in El Salvador flee violence, and are chased by ghosts of their murdered friends, a \u201cchorus of furies\u201d bent on telling their stories. Peter Ho Davies says The Volcano Daughters<\/em> is a \u201cmarvel of a book, at once lush and stark, mythic and earthy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities<\/a><\/em> edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee Swift, and Tiffany Tso<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective gathers organizers, artists, and writers to reflect on contemporary feminism. I can\u2019t wait to read this Haymarket publication of their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Rich People Have Gone Away<\/a><\/em> by Regina Porter<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this second novel from the PEN\/Hemingway Award finalist Regina Porter, a group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing pregnant woman. \u201cA lush study of relationships, keen on the particulars of vast human catastrophes,\u201d says Raven Leilani. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Palace of Eros<\/a><\/em> by Caro de Robertis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I delighted in Caro de Robertis\u2019s previous novels, and their newest book is a feminist, queer retelling of the Psyche-Eros myth. Madeline Miller calls de Robertis\u2019s writing \u201cbrilliant and luminous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

The Fallen Fruit<\/a><\/em> by Shawntelle Madison<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

History professor Cecily Bridge-Davis moves through time to try to free her family from a family curse. During these dangerous temporal travels, she encounters a circle of ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September & later<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Blue Light Hours<\/em> by Bruna Dantas Lobato<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award-listed translator Bruna Dantas Lobato has written a novel depicting a Brazilian college student\u2019s first year in America. She forges a changing relationship with her mother over long-distance video calls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

Tiny Threads<\/a><\/em> by Lilliam Rivera<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lilliam Rivera is a force in young-adult fiction, and in Tiny Threads<\/em>, her adult debut, a fashion-loving woman is overjoyed to get a job working with a legendary designer hero. But as a fashion show approaches, so does what might be supernatural menace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruined a Little When We Were Born<\/em> by Tara Isabel Zambrano<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Memorably billed as \u201cJhumpa Lahiri on LSD,\u201d this collection includes stories having to do with motherhood, mythology, and women\u2019s desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n

First in the Family<\/a><\/em> by Jessica Hoppe<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Hoppe, a mental health advocate and former editor of Stylecaster<\/em>, has written a memoir about being the first in her family to recover from addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Water Remembers<\/em> by Amy Bowers Cordalis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Amy Bowers Cordalis, along with her family and the Yurok Tribe, fought government agencies a long time over the damming of irrigation waters. In 2022, Congress ordered that the dam be removed from the Klamath River, and Cordalis tells the story of this fight and triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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