We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of our Democracy (Harper, $28.99).Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson investigates America’s entrenched, racebased caste system in her deeply researched book, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents (Random House, $32).Hugo Award recipient N.K.
Jemisin kicks off a new fantasy trilogy with The City We Became (Orbit, $28), set in New York City as it braces to face an attack by an alien force.In James McBride’s latest work, Deacon King Kong (Riverhead, $28), an ornery old deacon ends up with a target on his back after he shoots a drug dealer.A woman on the verge of turning 68 is dealt a life-changing blow, and must lean on her sister circle to pull through, in Terry McMillan’s It’s.
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