Among the stellar nonfiction this week: Zero at the Bone by poet Christian Wiman, "an uncommon work from an uncommonly beautiful mind, full of compassion and built of dazzling intellect"; Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, et al. bring humanity to homelessness in When We Walk By, a "brilliant book [with] clear solutions toward a better and brighter nation where everyone can have a roof over their heads"; and How to Loveby Alex Norris, a "funny, heartfelt book of comics [that] offers refreshing advice to teens and adults on singledom, dating, and falling in love for people of many sexualities and genders." Plus so many more!
In The Writer's Life, Shelf Awareness speaks with Paul Lynch about his Booker Prize-winning novel Prophet Song (reviewed in this issue).