![]() ![]() The answers he has been searching for come to him in the form of a letter left from his mother that reveals Eric must find his true love, the one with a voice pure of heart, or kill the sea witch responsible for cursing him in the first place. With a neighboring kingdom looking for any excuse to invade their shores, and rumors of ghost pirates lurking the seas, Eric is desperate for any information that may help him break his enchantment and bring stability to Vellona. The curse? If he were to kiss someone other than his true love, he would die. And so too the monsters of Rogers’s imagination, that draw upon long-told Cherokee stories - of Deer Woman, fantastical sea creatures, and more.įollowing one extended Cherokee family across the centuries, from the tribe’s homelands in Georgia in the 1830s to World War I, the Vietnam War, our own present, and well into the future, each story delivers a slice of a particular time period that will leave readers longing for more.Īlongside each story, Cherokee artist and language technologist Jeff Edwards delivers haunting illustrations that incorporate Cherokee syllabary.īefore Prince Eric’s mother, the Queen of Vellona, went missing two years ago, she reminded him about the details of the deadly curse that has plagued his entire life. But so are predators of a distinctly American variety - the horrors of empire, of intimate partner violence, of dispossession. Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection - from werewolves to vampires to zombies - all the time-worn horror baddies are there. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to 16-year-old girls. This is more important now than ever before. Then preorder any book that strikes your fancy. Use this list less as definitive this season and more as pretty accurate with some potential changes. With continued printing challenges due to paper sourcing and COVID-19, as well as the still backlogged supply chain issues, this might be the reality for a bit. There’s something here for every kind of reader, including those who are new to this exciting category of books.Īs always, this list of new fall 2022 YA books will not be comprehensive, especially as book publication dates are still periodically shifting. Find here your ultimate guide to books hitting shelves in the final quarter of the year, including brand new books from beloved authors and new voices, standalones to series books, and fiction to nonfiction. Follow her on Instagram All posts by Kelly Jensenįall is officially here, and with it, a bounty of new books for your towering TBR. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. And for distinctly untrippy, but stunning realistic portrayals of family grief, both Susie Boyt’s Loved and Missed and Una Mannion’s Tell Me What I Am show the effect of loss across generations.Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. One journeys through a portal in Lauren Beukes’ The Bridge. ![]() In addition to Awad’s Rouge, grieving daughters appear in Melissa Broder’s new novel, Death Valley. And Hilary Leichter has a new trippy, eerie delight with Terrace Story.Īs for extremely niche themes, this fall brings a parade of mourning daughters. Director Anna Biller ( The Love Witch) makes her literary debut with a reimagining of Bluebeard. Take Mona Awad’s new book, Rogue, which explores the theme of eternal beauty through a spooky mother-daughter relationship. This season also welcomes a reappearance of the modern Gothic aesthetic, with a good helping of dark surrealism. And Taylor Lorenz’s Extremely Online analyzes influencer culture writ large. Zadie Smith’s new novel, The Fraud, concerns narrative-shaping during a high profile, 19th century court case. Julia Fox’s highly anticipated memoir, Down the Drain, promises dark luxe candor. Marisa Meltzer’s latest nonfiction book, Glossy, goes deep into Glossier’s creation and expansion by profiling its founder, the elusive cool girl Emily Weiss. Lucky for us, there are dozens of exciting new books across genres and topics.Ī handful of this season’s releases explore image-making, public perception, and the inevitable haziness of truth. The shift into fall reading can be a fun transition point as we finish up the last of the summer vacation stack before the ambitious, serious season starts in September. ![]()
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