We're back, bookish friends! With our first regular episode, we chat about some of our most anticipated releases of 2019.
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Books Mentioned
Jan. 8th - Sugar Run by Mesha Maren (Algonquin Books)
Jan. 29th - Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard (Knopf)
Feb. 5th - The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang (Graywolf Press)
Feb. 12th - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Knopf)
March 5th - A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum (Harper Books)
March 5th - Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (Bloomsbury)
Note: Though Kendra says March 19th in the episode, the pub date is now March 5th.
March 12th - The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson (Grove Press)
April 16th - Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (FSG)
Honorable Mentions
Jan. 8th - The Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss (FSG)
Jan. 8th - Thick: and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (The New Press)
Jan. 15th - The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay (Grove Press)
Jan. 15th - The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday Books)
Jan. 22nd - The Kingdom of Copper by S. A Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
Feb. 12th - Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo (Flatiron Books)
Feb. 19th - Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray (Berkley)
Feb. 19th - The White Book by Han Kang (Hogarth)
Feb. 26th - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
March 5th - When I Hit You: Or the Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
March 12th - The True Queen by Zen Cho (Ace)
April 2nd - Women Talking by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury)
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