This week in our book reviews, we cover landscapes wild and wonderful, fearsome and familiar. Rae Giana Rashad's speculative debut, The Blueprint, "introduces an uncanny society built on the heels of Civil War II" in a reshaped United States. And The Forgotten Beasts of Eld revisits Patricia A. McKillip's "groundbreaking classic fantasy... about a fearless young sorceress and her menagerie of magical animals" in a special 50th anniversary edition, with a new introduction from Marjorie Liu and illustrations by Stephanie Law. Plus, Hayley and John Rocco offer young readers "a powerful, accessible message and remarkable illustrations" in Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough.
For The Writer's Life, Amina Gautier, author of The Best That You Can Do, shares what it was about the first time she read The Color Purple that changed her life, and so much more!