Among this week's exceptional titles, we review Shalom Auslander's "outrageously funny second memoir," Feh, about confronting his profound self-loathing with "humor and heart-wrenching detail"; as well as French novelist Adèle Rosenfeld's debut, Jellyfish Have No Ears, "a strange, haunting story of sensory presence and absence, language and loss, relationships and choices." And for younger readers, we spotlight We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang, "a fabulously illustrated, rib-tickling, and affecting testament to the benefits of kindness and community spirit"; and Mama's Chicken and Dumplings by Dionna L. Mann, a "sweet and funny novel" about a Black girl in the 1930s with a matchmaking plan for her mother.
In The Writer's Life, conservationist authors Maya Gabeira (Maya and the Beast and Maya Makes Waves) and Hayley Rocco (Hello, I'm a Pangolin and Hello, I'm a Sloth) share their passion for the natural world and a vision for the future of animal life.