Recent book deals mean more great reading next year
As if your TBR list isn't already long enough, here are some more books to look forward to reading in 2022.
Angie Kim, author of the award-winning Miracle Creek, has moved from Farrar, Straus & Giroux to PRH/Hogarth, where she will publish Happiness Quotient, which explores what happens when a father disappears and the only witness is his teenage son, who is nonverbal.
David Ebershoff of Hogarth tweeted, “Angie writes about America’s biggest themes — race, immigration, gender, justice — while weaving an intricate story of crime and mystery. I love her writing because it’s equal parts head and heart.”
Nancy Johnson, author of the current bestseller The Kindest Lie, has sold People of Means to William Morrow. It examines the lives of an upper class Black mother (in 1960s Nashville) and her daughter (in 1990’s Chicago), set against key events in America’s racial history.
Elif Shafak, author of 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World, will publish The Island of Missing Trees. It’s the story of a Greek and Turkish couple on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus in the 1970s. (Bloomsbury)
Namwali Serpell, author of The Old Drift, a unique hybrid combining Zambian history and culture with touches of sci-fi, will publish The Furrows: An Elegy, about how mourning leads us to seek out what we miss in those we’ve lost. The Old Drift won The Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. (Hogarth/Penguin Random House)