(Penguin, 256 pp., $16.) The title, our reviewer, Jenny Odell, noted, refers to the author’s instinct as a young woman to disappear. RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NONEXISTENCE: A Memoir, by Rebecca Solnit. (One World, 208 pp., $17.) One of the first undocumented students to be accepted to Harvard, the Ecuadorean author traversed America over the course of a decade, “gaining access to vigilantly guarded communities whose stories are largely absent from modern journalism and literature,” according to our reviewer, Caitlin Dickerson, who called this 2020 National Book Award finalist “captivating.” THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. “Fortunately, it is also deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane.” … There’s even some western,” is how our reviewer, Junot Díaz, described the National Book Award winner’s latest work of fiction, set in the Brooklyn housing projects of the 1960s and one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2020. (Riverhead, 400 pp., $17.) “A mystery novel, a crime novel, an urban farce. (Random House, 400 pp., $18.) In this “remarkable first book,” our reviewer, David Treuer, observed, Murdoch brings “the same fanaticism and dignity” that Lissa Yellow Bird brought to her search for a missing oil worker to the “search for and meaning of modern Native America.”ĭEACON KING KONG, by James McBride. YELLOW BIRD: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country, by Sierra Crane Murdoch.
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