EDITOR’S PICKS

EDITOR’S PICKS

Ekirch’s latest book opens with the bloodiest mutiny suffered by the Royal Navy—on the British frigate Hermione in 1797, only a few years after the Revolutionary War. The Virginia Tech history professor lays out how the ensuing firestorm led to America’s decision to grant political asylum to refugees from foreign governments.

National Book Award-winning author Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event. It’s a breakout work, according to Booklist, “with a bold apocalyptic theme, searing social critique and high-adrenaline action.”

The former publisher of Horn Book Magazine, Quirk offers a unique look at how the Founding Fathers settled their differences—George Washington vs. King George, Benjamin Franklin vs. his son, William—in their quest to settle a nation.

Lansburgh earned the 2017 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his collection of linked stories that follow a young woman who grew up in Germany during World War II as she crosses the Atlantic to start a new life. “Lansburgh has a keen eye and ear, and he puts them to great use in this lovely and mesmerizing” collection, writes one reviewer.

Cromley weaves together powerful stories about love and loss and longing in his second book. He focuses on feeble human institutions and fragile relationships with a collection that “makes you feel the depths of your own humanity,” according to Dartmouth English professor Ernest Hebert.

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