We have plenty of not-to-miss fiction this week: Janika Oza's debut novel, A History of Burning, a "stunning multigenerational saga" that follows a family from India to Kenya to Uganda, to Canada and the U.K. Hula, Jasmin Iolani Hakes's debut, is an "emotionally resonant, lyrical depiction" of three generations of Hawaiian women and their homeland. And Vanessa Walters's American debut, The Nigerwife, is "a gripping work of suspense, a psychological puzzle, a mystery, and a critique of marriage and high society." Plus so many more!
In The Writer's Life, Abraham Verghese discusses why he wanted to locate his long-awaited second novel, A Covenant of Water in "a new geography," and how he was moved to do so by his mother's response to his niece's question: "[W]hat was it like when you were a little girl?"