Happy Friday, PW Picks subscribers! Summer, sadly, is winding down, which always makes me wistful, even though it's been [redacted] years since that feeling has been attached to my back-to-school blues.
Two of the books we're highlighting this week are also animated by melancholy backward glances: Amanda Uhle's Destroy This House is an off-kilter family memoir I'm recommending in the Editors' Picks section, while novelist Miriam Toews's pensive new memoir, A Truce That Is Not Peace, gets dissected in a profile by my colleague, Louisa Ermelino.
Elsewhere, PW's editors recommend a pair of weighty, well-written histories, and we chat with Yellowface author R.F. Kuang about her new novel: a warped dark academia fantasy. (Speaking of back to school!)
—Conner Reed
Starred Reviews Releasing Next Week
Miriam Toews’s True Story
Writers Talking Writers: Téa Obreht on Daphne du Maurier and Kevin Young on Lucille Clifton
Highway to Hell: PW Talks with R.F. Kuang
Heroic Energy: PW Talks with Nolan Chase
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High TideBy Howard W. French (Norton)
This sweeping new history of African decolonization and Pan-Africanism centered around the intellectual development of Ghanian politician Kwame Nkrumah is stylish, panoramic, and totally absorbing!! —Dana Snitzky, history and current affairs reviews editor
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York CityBy LaShawn Harris (Beacon)
I’m adding this one to my stack because I’m always interested in histories of New York City in the turbulent 1980s, and because it strikes me as painfully relevant. The horrifying and galvanizing police killing of Eleanor Bumpurs, which occurred during the serving of an eviction notice, speaks to the city’s and the country’s abysmal treatment of people with mental illnesses, outrage over Black victims of police violence, and the housing crisis. —David Varno, literary fiction reviews editor
By Amanda Uhle (Simon & Schuster)
I can't wait to dive into this family saga from McSweeney's director Uhle, which concerns her eccentric parents' various hustles, including preaching and inventing soap dispensers. Our reviewer called out Uhle's gift for "cockeyed portraiture," which is almost always what I'm looking for from a book like this. —Conner Reed, mystery and memoir reviews editor
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Mistakes That Made Me a Millionaire: How to Transform Setbacks Into Extraordinary Success
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