Publishing This Week: Curtis Sittenfeld, Timothy Egan, Kate Morton, Susanna Moore +17 More

Publishing This Week

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This week's 26 notable new books include novels from Curtis Sittenfeld, Kate Morton, Susanna Moore and 14 others, including two that BookBrowse members reivewed for our early reader program First Impressions:

Joe Milan Jr's debut The All-American which, according to Junot Diaz, is "a potent, spellbinding novel" through which Milan has "rocketed himself into the literary stratosphere;" and Panther Gap, James A. McLaughlin second novel following his Edgar Award-winning novel Bearskin.

In addition there are some intriguing nonfiction titles to explore including A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan.

You'll find brief details on ten books below and information on all, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu). Our "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists. So, this is the place to be if you want to see what's coming soon or look back to previous months; you can sort each month by publication date, genre and title.

Enjoy!

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher

This Week's New and Notable Books

There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

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The All-American: A Novel
by Joe Milan Jr.

Debut Author
On sale Apr 4 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.2/5

"Only a novelist as gifted as Milan Jr could have transformed this nightmare tale of a world lost into profoundly moving meditation on nationhood, belonging and the possibility of rebirth … with this incredible debut Milan has rocketed himself into the literary stratosphere." ―Junot Diaz, author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Enter Ghost
by Isabella Hammad

On sale Apr 4 from Grove Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet

Natural Beauty: A Novel
by Ling Ling Huang

Debut Author
On sale Apr 4 from Dutton
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.

Romantic Comedy: A Novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld

On sale Apr 4 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.

The House Is on Fire
by Rachel Beanland

On sale Apr 4 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Historical Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night—told from the perspectives of four people whose actions during the inferno changed the course of history.

The Lost Wife: A novel
by Susanna Moore

On sale Apr 4 from Knopf
Genre: Historical Fiction. 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing, immersive novel about a seminal and shameful moment in America's conquest of the West. Drawing partly from a true story, it brings to life a devastating Native American revolt and the woman caught in the middle of the conflict.

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan

On sale Apr 4 from Viking
Genre: History. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.

If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
by Wendy Dean

Debut Author
On sale Apr 4 from Steerforth Press
Genre: Health. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Through stories and solutions, leading physicians tackle the conundrum of how best to care for patients while being thwarted by the business side of healthcare.

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