She uses Filipino folklore to create a book unlike anything you’ve ever read. It’s dark and haunting, but is something every lover of literature needs to read. A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux April 12)Ĭhadburn’s book is a work of beauty. Li uses a captivating and thrilling art heist as the backdrop for a mediation on Chinese American heritage. It’s language is beautiful and how Jones writers about disability, love, location, body, and everything in between is masterful. This is the memoir every aspiring writer should read. Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader April 5) The book follows what happens when everything falls apart. The main character in Johnson’s original and darkly hilarious debut barely held her life together. Be warned: once you start this book, it’s unputdownable. Zhang takes readers to the 1880s American West during the Chinese Reclamation Act and provides a gorgeous and heart wrenching story of a young girl fighting for her place in the world. This is one of the most powerful historical fiction books in recent memory. Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Flatiron April 5) Little Foxes is a heartwarming tale of finding yourself even when it doesn’t seem possible to do so. Set in Russia just after the fall of the Soviet Union, Kazbek’s coming-of-age story weave folklore, sexuality, and family drama seamlessly. Each month, Debutiful helps readers discover debut authors who are releasing can’t-miss books! Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek (Tin House April 5)
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