![]() Nancy Jooyoun Kim, What We Kept to Ourselves No word is misspent in Yoshimoto’s taut tale.” While much of the plot hinges on Yayoi’s preternatural intuitions, each step is carefully plotted to slowly unearth the secrets of the past. “Yoshimoto builds a satisfying narrative of a young girl figuring out who she is, and how her family may be more than she realized. The meals his characters enjoy together through it all-from congee to collards to croissants-remind us of the many ways that love, like food, sustains us.” “Shifting between points of view, Washington shows us characters at their most vulnerable, using food culture to explore conflict, desire, pleasure and passion. No matter what you’re in the mood for, you’re likely to find something intriguing below, and I hope you’ll curl up in the (possibly) cooler weather with one of these new books. You’ll also find poetry collections and selections, genre-bending memoirs, psychedelic nonfiction (that is, nonfiction about entheogens that also feels appropriately psychedelic), a study of the women in Hitchcock’s cinematic oeuvre, a reflection on Lucille Ball, and much, much more. Below, you’ll find exciting new fiction by Bryan Washington, Walter Mosley, Jhumpa Lahiri, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Banana Yoshimoto, and more, as well as powerful new nonfiction from Roxane Gay, Werner Herzog, Phillip Lopate, and others. In-between all of this preparation, you might be on the search for something new to read, and, if that sounds like you, fear not: there are many, many new books to consider, many from titans of the literary world. As we get deeper into October, the weather prepares to cool, and some of us prepare, in turn, the very (or very not) cool costumes we will wear on Halloween.
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