A little while ago, I
created a shareable calendar for The Millions' list of notable forthcoming releases and a modified version of it with a few personal additions.
Today, I'm adding a couple of new titles to the list:
We the Animals by Justin Torres and
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan.
Significant Twitter chatter spurred me to find out a little about
We The Animals. After a little follow-up, this debut novel about a working-class, mixed race family not only sounds compelling from the synopsis, but glowing blurbs from Marilynne Robinson, Paul Harding, Dorothy Allison, Michael Cunningham and others raised my eyebrow. There are a few authors who can get me to read a book by blurbing it and Marilynne Robinson is one of them. The last book I read on the strength of blurb from her was Paul Harding's
Tinker, which went on the win the Pulitzer Prize.
I don't remember where I first heard about
When She Woke, but a dystopic retelling of
The Scarlet Letter warrants at least a sample download. Haven't heard much early buzz, but I will give this a wide berth to be interesting.
If you have other books you are looking forward to that are not on the calendar already, I'd like to hear about them. Can't have too many in the dugout is what I say.
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