These are the fiction titles our reviewers like best this month:<\/p>\n
Indian Country,\u00a0<\/b>by Shobha Rao<\/p>\n
Newly married Janavi and Sagar leave their familiar world of Varanasi, India, for a dam-removal project in Montana\u2019s Cotton River Valley. As the couple struggles to find their cultural bearings, opposition to the project, plus the suspicious drowning of a Native American colleague, deepen old rifts in the community. Shobha Rao weaves an absorbing story of dislocation and memory. \u2013 Erin Douglass<\/p>\n
Why We Wrote This<\/p>\n
Our reviewers\u2019 picks this month include a novel based on the life of female photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who covered conflicts from World War II to Vietnam. Also in historical fiction, a battle of wits ensues between a widowed shop owner and a dashing rogue in 1740s London. In nonfiction, \u201cThe Martians\u201d looks at the craze for all things Red Planet in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n
The Last Assignment,\u00a0<\/b>by Erika Robuck<\/p>\n
This historical novel, based on the life of combat photojournalist Georgette \u201cDickey\u201d Chapelle, follows her reporting from World War II to the Cuban Revolution to the Vietnam War. Erika Robuck captures the camaraderie of the troops with whom Chapelle was embedded, and the fearlessness with which she lived and died.\u00a0\u2013 Stefanie Milligan<\/p>\n
The Art of a Lie,\u00a0<\/b>by Laura Shepherd-Robinson<\/p>\n
Dubbed \u201ca gladiatorial battle of wits\u201d by its author, this twisty comeuppance tale delivers. On one side is shop owner Hannah Cole \u2013 widowed,\u00a0 aggrieved, and currently hiding a very big secret. On the other side is dashing rake William Devereux, lugging lies and dodgy motives of his own. Set in London in 1749, the story discourages easy moralizing about guilt and justice. \u2013 Erin Douglass<\/p>\n
The View From Lake Como,\u00a0<\/b>by Adriana Trigiani<\/p>\n
This big-hearted tale of a dutiful Italian American daughter is hilarious. After divorcing her husband, Jess finds herself catapulted to Italy and her uncle\u2019s marble business and ancestral home. There, she meets an inspiring gold artist. Adriana Trigiani\u2019s characters and dialogue are a delight. \u2013 Stefanie Milligan<\/p>\n
These are the nonfiction titles our reviewers like best this month:<\/p>\n
Algospeak,\u00a0<\/b>by Adam Aleksic<\/p>\n
Linguist Adam Aleksic takes readers on a conversational plunge into language change in our algorithm-powered, social media era. He tracks terms as they move from a subculture\u2019s insider lingo to hot new hashtag to offline slang to verbal ubiquity.\u00a0\u2013 Erin Douglass<\/p>\n
The Invention of Charlotte Bront\u00eb,\u00a0<\/b>by Graham Watson<\/p>\n
Graham Watson critiques biography itself while exploring the fraught life, creative output, and frenzied eulogizing of \u201cJane Eyre\u201d author Charlotte Bront\u00eb. No one comes off great \u2013 not the father, the husband, nor friends such as writer Elizabeth Gaskell, who takes on the herculean task of chronicling \u201cEngland\u2019s great enigma.\u201d It\u2019s a compelling look at narrative-making. \u2013 Erin Douglass<\/p>\n
Ring of Fire,\u00a0<\/b>by Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst<\/p>\n
World War I has been called \u201cthe great seminal catastrophe of the 20th century\u201d by American historian George Kennan. Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst, making extensive use of foreign-language sources including letters and diaries, have produced a vivid, insightful, and unsparing account of the war\u2019s opening days. \u2013 Terry W. Hartle<\/p>\n
The Martians,\u00a0<\/b>by David Baron<\/p>\n
Science journalist David Baron\u2019s captivating book describes the Mars craze of the early 20th century, when it was widely believed that intelligent life existed on the red planet. Well-researched and elegantly written, Baron\u2019s account illuminates the origins of America\u2019s continuing fascination with Mars. \u2013 Barbara Spindel<\/p>\n
A Flower Traveled in My Blood,\u00a0<\/b>by Haley Cohen Gilliland<\/p>\n
Haley Cohen Gilliland delivers an in-depth account of Argentina\u2019s fierce legion of activist grandmothers. They were driven to protest \u2013 and investigate \u2013 the disappearances of family members during the military junta\u2019s terror campaign from 1976 to 1983. The book is rousing, roiling, and awe-inducing. \u2013 Erin Douglass<\/p>\n
Tonight in Jungleland,\u00a0<\/b>by Peter Ames Carlin<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to believe that Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cBorn To Run\u201d \u2013 one of the most acclaimed albums in rock history \u2013 was almost buried by Columbia Records. After disappointing sales of the young musician\u2019s first two records, executives had planned to drop him. Peter Ames Carlin tells of the album\u2019s creation, and how it eventually secured Springsteen\u2019s stardom. \u2013 Joan Gaylord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are the fiction titles our reviewers like best this month: Indian Country,\u00a0by Shobha Rao Newly married Janavi…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-165552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115070502455016967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}