With the Labor Day weekend upon us, here are the 25 new books that we are most eager to read this fall…
Thanks to our Contributing Editor John Wilson for some of these recommendations!
[ Theology ] [ Fiction ] [ Gen. Nonfiction ] [ Literary ] [ Place ] [ Poetry / Young Readers ]
Poetry
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[easyazon_link identifier=”132850784X” locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Monument: Poems New and Selected[/easyazon_link]
Natasha Trethewey
HMH Books (November)
Layering joy and urgent defiance—against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone—Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Trethewey’s first retrospective, draws together verse that delineates the stories of working class African American women, a mixed-race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in Casta paintings, Gulf coast victims of Katrina. Through the collection, inlaid and inextricable, winds the poet’s own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love.
Young Readers:
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[easyazon_link identifier=”1947888013″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]When God Gave Us Words[/easyazon_link]
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Flyaway Books (September)
Award-winning children’s book author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso tells a creative tale about the origin of words, and the power of language, in When God Gave Us Words. Inside this innovative children’s book, God gives the power of words to humankind. At first God and the angels are pleased with how people use words, but over time they start to use words to make curses, lies, and threats. The angels beg God to take back the gift of language, and just as God is about to take it back, new beautiful words begin to fill the air.
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[easyazon_link identifier=”0763694630″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Louisiana’s Way Home[/easyazon_link]
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick (October)
DiCamillo builds a resilient and sympathetic character in Louisiana, and the juxtaposition of her down-to-earth observations with Granny’s capriciousness lightens the narrative and allows for a good deal of humor…The overarching themes addressing forgiveness, love, friendship, acceptance, home, and family (“Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up”) ring honest and true.
—The Horn Book (starred review)
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C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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