Mar '21 Notable Books: Jamie Figueroa, Kazuo Ishiguro, Pola Oloixarac & More
A recurring series on the most interesting book releases of the month...
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro (Mar. 2) - Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer - Jamie Figueroa (Mar. 2) - As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.
Lightseekers - Femi Kayode (Mar. 2) - A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller".
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive - Carl Zimmer (Mar. 9) - Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word?
Mona - Pola Oloixarac (Mar. 16) - In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous and finally jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing a hipster elite in which she both does and does not belong.
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds - Scott Weidensaul (Mar. 30) - This breathtaking work of nature writing [...] convey[s] both the wonder of bird migration and its global sweep, from the mudflats of the Yellow Sea in China to the remote mountains of northeastern India to the dusty hills of southern Cyprus.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro (Mar. 2) - Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?
Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer - Jamie Figueroa (Mar. 2) - As the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.
Lightseekers - Femi Kayode (Mar. 2) - A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller".
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive - Carl Zimmer (Mar. 9) - Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word?
Mona - Pola Oloixarac (Mar. 16) - In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous and finally jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing a hipster elite in which she both does and does not belong.
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds - Scott Weidensaul (Mar. 30) - This breathtaking work of nature writing [...] convey[s] both the wonder of bird migration and its global sweep, from the mudflats of the Yellow Sea in China to the remote mountains of northeastern India to the dusty hills of southern Cyprus.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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