This week, many of the books we're spotlighting invite you to join into the authors' reflective musings. Poet Esteban Rodríguez's "lyricism gilds the everyday--memory, health, and landscape--with grace" in his stirring collection The Lost Nostalgias. And in A Change of Habit, Sister Monica Clare delineates with openness and humor the indirect route she took through marriage and Hollywood before becoming an Episcopal nun, a dream she'd had since childhood. Meanwhile, one bright morning presents an everyday opportunity for unhurried contemplation in Jihyun Kim's "magnificent," "glorious" second picture book, Blue Sky Morning. Plus, in The Writer's Life, Booker Prize finalist Madeleine Thien opens up The Book of Records for a vulnerable and thoughtful discussion of finding lightness when carrying heavy history through a world that's hard to love.
We're also thrilled to highlight some new paperback versions of favorite titles from last year!