Shelf Awareness for Readers, our weekly consumer-facing publication featuring adult and children's book reviews, author interviews, backlist recommendations, and fun news items, is being published today. Starred review highlights include Shalom Auslander's "outrageously funny second memoir," Feh, and 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. Plus, rediscover the late author and longtime editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine, Lewis H. Lapham.
Today's issue of Shelf Awareness for Readers is going to more than 690,000 customers of 251 independent bookstores. Stores interested in learning more can contact our partnership program team via e-mail. To see today's issue, click here.
