Autumn’s life unravels as her grief becomes overwhelming, and she grows steadily more fixated on the plight of missing women. The missing woman’s sister, Autumn, sets out to solve the case, after learning the police aren’t likely to provide her with answers. Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon: Buckhanon’s latest novel, her fourth, takes the reader on a quest to find out why a woman in Harlem disappeared after walking to the roof of her brownstone one day. Publishers Weekly praises Tomar for “employing authorial sleight-of-hand…intentionally scrambl the chronology of the chapters, the better to immerse the reader in the disorder and dysfunction that shape her characters’ lives.” (Matt) A gritty portrait of small-town life and the violence that plagues it, the novel formally experiments with time and narration. (Hannah)Ī Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar: In this modern-day Western, Tomar tells the story of a young woman’s search for her missing friend in the harsh desert landscape along the California-Nevada border.
In case you need more convincing, it has garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, is on multiple summer reading lists, and is from the author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat and Some Possible Solutions. The Need by Helen Phillips: This book had me at “existential thriller about motherhood” but when I found out that the mother in the book is also a paleobotanist, I pre-ordered, because I’ve spent a lot of time in the American Museum of Natural History staring at plant fossils. In an early review, Publishers Weekly calls The Nickel Boys “a stunning novel of impeccable language and startling insight.” (Michael) The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: Fresh off a Pulitzer for The Underground Railroad, Whitehead returns to the subject of America’s racist history with this tale of a college-bound black man who runs afoul of the law in Jim Crow Florida and ends up in the hellish Nickel Academy, where boys are beaten and sexually abused by the staff. And, get the best of The Millions delivered to your inbox every week. Want to help The Millions keep churning out great books coverage? Then sign up to be a member today. As always, please let us know what we missed in the comments, and look for additional titles in our monthly previews. With more than 100 titles, you’re going to have your hands full this fall. It brings Zadie Smith’s very first short story collection. It brings hotly anticipated first novels by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Wayne Koestenbaum.
The second half of 2019 brings new novels from Colson Whitehead, Ben Lerner, Jacqueline Woodson, and Margaret Atwood. We seem to say this every six months or so, but what a year for books.
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