A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
How to Dodge a Cannonball
By Dennard Dayle
This rollicking bildungsroman unfolds amid the Civil War.
A look at what’s steaming up the shelves this month.
How well do you know America’s founding document?
Kraft: A Novel
By Jonas Lüscher; translated by Tess Lewis
An aging German scholar flees his complicated life to write a prize-winning essay in Silicon Valley.
The Scent of Buenos Aires
By Hebe Uhart; translated by Maureen Shaughnessy
These delicate tales of everyday lives in and around Argentina’s capital reflect on the passage of time and small pleasures.
The Blaze
By Chad Dundas
An Iraq War veteran returns home and struggles to regain his memory amid strange happenings.
With searing honesty, a retired soldier/professor comes to terms with his lifelong worship of a traitor.
Yellow Wife: A Novel
By Sadeqa Johnson
A sobering, graphically violent story of a light-skinned slave struggling to survive in the 19th-century South.
How a new children’s book honors Rachel Carson’s life and mission.
Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is
By Gretel Ehrlich
A nuanced meditation on the sacred spaces disappearing before our eyes.
