In this issue, we recommend Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, whose second essay collection celebrates her Indian Filipina heritage and considers "the ways food binds people together, as well as the complex, delicious alchemy of taste and memory"; and A Professional Lola by E.P. Tuazon, "a poignant, sly" story collection that examines "their diasporic Filipino American community." Plus, A Bear, a Fish, and a Fishy Wish by Daniel Bernstrom and illustrated by Brandon James Scott, a "fast, funny" rhyming picture book about a "hungry, hapless bear" and "an adorable mostly-eyes salmon baby." And so many more!
In The Writer's Life, novelist Claire Messud discusses the family stories that led her to write This Strange Eventful History as "an increasingly interior narrative" swept up in profound historical incidents.