Memoirs & Biographies
his father, Harry L. Kozol, a
renowned neurologist who
suffered from Alzheimer’s,
and a frank examination of
how we come to terms with
caregiving.
DA CAPO/LIFELONG
Dogfella: How an Abandoned Dog Named Bruno
Turned This Mobster’s Life
Around—A Memoir by
James Guiliani, with Charlie
Stella (May 26, hardcover, $24.99, ISBN
978-0-7382-1807-6). An addicted ex-con
recounts the story of his life, from
his involvement in street gangs and the
infamous Gotti crime family to his incarceration and eventual redemption through
animal welfare, which began with his
rescue of an abandoned, abused Shih Tzu
that he named Bruno.
DEEP VELLUM
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The Journey by Sergio Pitol, trans. by
George Henson (July 14, paper, $12.95,
ISBN 978-1-941920-18-3). One of Mexico’s most culturally complex and composite writers recounts two weeks of travel
around the Soviet Union in 1986, blurring
the lines between fiction and fact, as he
reflects on the impact of Russia’s sacred
literary pantheon in his life and the power
that literature holds over us all.
DOUBLEDAY
The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi
Julavits (Apr. 7, hardcover, $26.95, ISBN
978-0-385-53898-5). After discovering
her old diaries chronicling anxieties about
grades, looks, and boys, Julavits decides to
write a journal as a 40-something woman,
wife, mother, and writer. The result is a
two-year meditation on time and self,
desire and death, and other pieces of life,
including art and ambition.
DOUGLAS & MCINTYRE/
GREYSTONE
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Fallen: A Trauma, a Marriage, and
the Transformative Power of Music
by Kara Stanley (May 12,
paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-1-
77164-102-9). In this recov-
ery narrative and love story,
interwoven with the latest
research on the brain, Stanley
tells the story of her husband’s
brain and spinal cord injury
and the role of music, science,
and love in recovery.
DUTTON
Meet Me in Atlantis: My
Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken
City by Mark Adams (Mar. 10, hardcover,
$27.95, ISBN 978-0-525-95370-8).
Adams’s quest to solve one of history’s
greatest mysteries takes readers to fascinating locations to meet irresistible characters
in an often humorous look at the human
longing to rediscover a lost world.
ECCO
Circling the Square: Stories from the
Egyptian Revolution by Wendell Steavenson (July 21, hardcover, $26.99, ISBN
978-0-06-237525-4). Through a series of
character-driven vignettes, New Yorker
writer Steavenson recounts the events of
the Egyptian revolution—from Mubarak’s
fall to Morsi’s—in a pointillist portrait of
a people enacting and reacting to change
and hope. 15,000-copy announced first
printing.
ECW
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Love in the Elephant Tent: How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me
Home by Kathleen Cremonesi (May 12,
hardcover, $25.95, ISBN 978-1-77041-
252-1). On a whim, Cremonesi’s wanderlust led her to take a job as a dancer in a
circus and, working her way up, became an
ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl,
which brings her peace and the love of Stefano, the sexy elephant keeper.
What Was I Thinking?: The Autobi-
ography of an Idea and Other Essays
by Rick Salutin (May 12, paper, $22.95,
ISBN 978-1-77041-260-6). Canadian
journalism’s agent provocateur for more
than three decades, Salutin has been one of
the most outspoken commentators of his
generation. This is classic Salutin and
mostly unpublished works of thought and
opinion, including a lengthy personal and
historical essay on the world of therapy.
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
FSG/SARAH CRICHTON
The Wild Oats Project: One Woman’s
Midlife Quest for Passion at Any Cost
by Robin Rinaldi (Mar. 17, hardcover, $26,
ISBN 978-0-374-29021-4). What if
for just one year you explored everything
you’d wondered about sex but hadn’t tried?
Journalist Rinaldi, 44, married for 18
years, decides to move into a San Francisco
apartment, join a dating site, and get laid,
after her husband insists on a vasectomy
when she is considering having a child.
GRAND CENTRAL
Blackout: Remembering the Things
I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola (June
23, hardcover, $26, ISBN 978-1-4555-
5459-1). A raw but uplifting memoir of
addiction and recovery by a single woman
with a rising career in media, who was also
a serious blackout drinker. Hepola writes
about women, alcohol, and giving up
something you love. 200,000-copy
announced first printing.
The Light of the World: A Memoir by
Elizabeth Alexander (Apr. 21, hardcover,
$26, ISBN 978-1-4555-9987-5). Alexander, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, reflects with
gratitude on her life after the sudden death
of her husband when he was 49. Alexander
channels her poetic sensibilities into lucid
prose that describes a very personal yet universal quest for meaning, understanding,
and acceptance. 40,000-copy announced
first printing.
