A WILD FEVER DREAM of a novel takes on revenge, racism, love and hate between women, all in an alternate, apocalyptic America. B PLUS

HEARTLAND (PAPERBACK)
Restless Books
2018

A LIFE DISFIGURED BY FAME: shimmeringly lovely novel tells the story of a celebrated painter’s son. A MINUS

THE ITALIAN TEACHER
Viking
2018

LANGUID, RAW GEM of a novel tells the story of a lost girl and her equally untethered mother in spellbinding prose. B PLUS

GUN LOVE|HARDCOVER
Crown/Archetype
2018

HAUNTING, HEARTSTOPPING SHORT novel about a man lost at sea tells a simple story in spare but luminous prose. A MINUS

COVE (HARDCOVER)
Catapult
2018

FLIPPING THE SCRIPT on “everything happens for a reason”: a divinity school professor’s cancer diagnosis teaches her the inscrutable nature of suffering. B PLUS

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON (HARDCOVER)
Random House
2018

A HEARTBREAKING, BEAUTIFUL MEMOIR of life on the US/Mexico border by a former Border Patrol agent with deep roots on both sides. A MINUS

THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER
Penguin Random House
2018

TIME-HOPPING THRILLER PITS a man down on his luck against a shadowy government project. Intriguing premise. SOLID B

MKULTRA
T.S. Smith
2018

NOIR IN THE GREAT TRADITION, set in a sleepy Delaware town and with a marvelously twisty plot. A MINUS

SUNBURN|SIGNED BOOK
HarperCollins Publishers
2018

AN ABUSIVE, ISOLATED FAMILY, obsessed with apocalypse and religion, can’t keep a woman from getting an education. Frank, heartbreaking memoir. A MINUS

EDUCATED (HARDCOVER)
Random House
2018

A “RED-DIAPER BABY’S” Communist childhood inspires an adult life of activism for civil rights and economic equality. Affable, impassioned memoir. B PLUS

HISTORY LESSONS: A MEMOIR OF GROWING UP IN AN AMERICAN COMMUNIST FAMILY|PAPERBACK
Xlibris Corporation
2017