Feb '22 Notable Books: Ella Baxter, Jessica Au, Olga Tokarczuk & More
Feb '22 Notable Books: Ella Baxter, Jessica Au & Olga Tokarczuk
A recurring series on the most interesting book releases of the month...
The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk (Feb. 1) - The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds - Thomas Halliday (Feb. 1) - A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago.
Cold Enough for Snow - Jessica Au (Feb. 8) - At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world.
New Animal - Ella Baxter (Feb. 15) - Hilarious and heartfelt, New Animal reveals hard-won truths as Amelia struggles to find her place in the world without her mother, with the help of her two well-intentioned fathers and adventures at the kink club.
Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses - Jackie Higgins (Feb. 22) - From the harlequin mantis shrimp with its ability to see a vast range of colors, to the bloodhound and its hundreds of millions of scent receptors; from the orb-weaving spider whose eyes recognize not only space but time, to the cheetah whose ears are responsible for its perfect agility, these astonishing animals hold the key to better understanding how we make sense of the world around us.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk (Feb. 1) - The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds - Thomas Halliday (Feb. 1) - A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago.
Cold Enough for Snow - Jessica Au (Feb. 8) - At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world.
New Animal - Ella Baxter (Feb. 15) - Hilarious and heartfelt, New Animal reveals hard-won truths as Amelia struggles to find her place in the world without her mother, with the help of her two well-intentioned fathers and adventures at the kink club.
Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses - Jackie Higgins (Feb. 22) - From the harlequin mantis shrimp with its ability to see a vast range of colors, to the bloodhound and its hundreds of millions of scent receptors; from the orb-weaving spider whose eyes recognize not only space but time, to the cheetah whose ears are responsible for its perfect agility, these astonishing animals hold the key to better understanding how we make sense of the world around us.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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