THE PANDEMIC CENTURY: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris, by Mark Honigsbaum. (Norton, 512 pp., $17.95.) Some scenes in this “deeply researched” history, citing similarities in the world’s response to nine so-called pandemics, are “so vivid” they had our reviewer, Carl Zimmer, “drafting movie treatments” in his head. The paperback edition includes a new chapter on the coronavirus.
REAL QUEER AMERICA: LGBT Stories From Red States, by Samantha Allen. (Back Bay, 320 pp., $16.99.) In this celebratory mix of memoir and reportage that our reviewer, Sarah McBride, called “powerful,” Allen interweaves her personal journey, from a closeted Mormon missionary to an openly transgender reporter, with the stories of other L.G.B.T. people she met on a 2017 road trip through our nation’s most conservative states.
IN WEST MILLS, by De’Shawn Charles Winslow. (Bloomsbury, 272 pp., $16.) From the start of this debut novel about a fictional Southern black town (“insulated” from war and racism) and a grade-school teacher whose family history leads her to moonshine, men she won’t marry and children she won’t raise, the “precision and charm” of the author’s language “lure us in and soothe us,” our reviewer, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, wrote.
CIRCE, by Madeline Miller. (Back Bay, 416 pp., $16.99.) Whether or not you view redemption of one of myth’s most reviled women as a good thing, our reviewer, Claire Messud, argued that Miller’s novel is an “engrossing” read: You get the back story to Circe’s “transgressive divine excess” and then watch motherhood turn her into a “profoundly human” character, “postpartum depression and all.”
DAD’S MAYBE BOOK, by Tim O’Brien. (Mariner, 400 pp., $16.99.) The National Book Award-winning author of “Going After Cacciato” began writing letters to his sons in 2004, when the second was on the way and O’Brien was 58, to give them what he wished his father had given him: “some scraps of paper signed ‘Love, Dad.’” His wife, Meredith, coined the term “maybe book,” thinking they might mean something to other fathers.
ORDINARY GIRLS: A Memoir, by Jaquira Díaz. (Algonquin, 352 pp., $16.95.) These girls, who in Díaz’s words were “black and brown and poor and queer,” are her tribe. While she survived, becoming a journalist and writing teacher, many did not. In prose that “truly sings,” our reviewer, Reyna Grande, said, Díaz “gets her hands dirty, her heart broken, her spirit bruised,” and lives to tell the tale.
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