The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Summer Okra Picks, which are either set in the South and/or written by an author in the South, are the new titles SIBA booksellers are most excited to handsell this season. This summer's Okra titles are:
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
After Squidnight by Jonathan E. Fenske, illustrated by Jonathan Fenske (Penguin Workshop)
Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha (Tor Books)
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey (Ecco)
Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral (Graywolf Press)
The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi, foreword by Emily P. Freeman (WaterBrook)
Loathe at First Sight by Suzanne Park (Avon)
When These Mountains Burn by David Joy (Putnam)
RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Frank Morrison (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James (Nancy Paulsen Books)
The Deepest South of All by Richard Grant (S&S)
Pea, Bee, & Jay #1: Stuck Together, written and illustrated by Brian "Smitty" Smith (HarperAlley)
The Big Door Prize by M.O. Walsh (Putnam)