This week, we review Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander's The Door of No Return, a "foreboding yet mesmerizing historical novel in verse"; Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts, which uses a "brilliantly envisioned" dystopian U.S. as the setting for her "eerie and prophetic novel"; and, from photographer Carell Augustus, Black Hollywood, a "knockout portrait showcase" of 60 Black leaders from the world of arts and entertainment; plus so much more!
Jonathan Escoffery, the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction recipient, discusses his debut linked story collection, If I Survive You, in The Writer's Life. The book follows what he calls "our hyper-observant Jamaican American hero, Trelawny" and his family striving for more in Miami.
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness