This week's line-up includes a pair of stellar poetry books: Lotería by Esteban Rodríguez, inspired by the traditional Mexican game of chance played with a deck of 54 cards, resulting in "a creative, poignant recounting of his Mexican American family history"; and Brian Turner's stirring Dead Peasant's Handbook--the final book in "an intimate autobiographical trilogy" that offers love as the antidote to loss and conflict. Plus Where's Joon? by Julie Kim, which reunites the trio from Where's Halmoni? for another "visually spectacular adventure." And so many more!
In The Writer's Life, Isle McElroy discusses a book that "resonates deeply" with their own People Collide, and a professor whose love of a book changed them as a writer and reader.
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness