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 Bill Schutt's Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans, which is a "treasure trove of... facts" about the eating habits of vampire bats and which frogs have teeth; Navid Sinaki's debut novel, Medusa of the Roses, a "spellbinding story [that] unfolds not as a myth retold but as a fresh legend; and Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay, which delivers a "profound multigenerational" saga of Filipino American men. In The Writer's Life, novelist Caro De Robertis, author of The Palace of Eros, a genderqueer retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros, shares the story of discovering a kindred spirit in Jo March. Plus, rediscover the late poet, author and editor Hettie Jones, who made her "household a hub for Beat writers and other artists."
Today's issue of Shelf Awareness for Readers is going to 635,000 customers of more than 250 independent bookstores. Stores interested in learning more can contact our partnership program team via e-mail. To see today's issue, click here.
