Publishers Weekly - August 28, 2017

and glimpses of a small village in England, McGregor brilliantly contrasts the urgency of life with the banality of living.”

City Lights

The Stone Building and Other Places

Asli Erdogan, trans. from the Turkish by Sevinç Türkkan (Nov., $13.95, trade paper)

Profiled in the New Yorker, the subject of PEN International and PEN America advocacy campaigns

In her second work to be translated into English, author and journalist Erdogan offers three interconnected stories, which feature women whose lives have been interrupted by forces beyond their control—exile, serious illness, or the imprisonment of a loved one. Erdogan, who was imprisoned for four months last year following a failed coup attempt in Turkey, awaits trial on charges that could result in life imprisonment.

Author appearances, excerpts in Autostraddle, Bustle, and Bust Billed as “a nonfiction novel,” Mean mixes true crime with memoir, a ghost story, and the coming-of-age tale of a queer, mixed-race Chicana. “I am such a gigantic fan,” Jill Soloway says of Gurba. “Her voice is an alchemy of queer magic, feminist wildness, and intersectional explosion. She’s a gigantic inspiration to my work and the sexiest, smartest literary discovery in Los Angeles.”

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The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage

Jared Yates Sexton (Aug., $26, hardcover)

14-city tour, including the Miami Book Festival

“Sexton’s chronicle of the 2016 election is the first that spoke to me on a visceral level,” says Tristan Charles at Parnassus Books in Nashville. “There’s a unique value in ignoring postmortems and what-ifs and instead drilling right to the center of America, to the fracturing, raging heart of our nation, and forcing oneself not to look away. The result is a gripping dirge for who we were, who we are, and who we might have been.”