March blows in with a robust slate of new fiction, so get ready to place some holds!
3/5: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Raquel Toro, an art history student at Brown University, navigates feeling like an outsider among more privileged students. Then Raquel rediscovers the work of Anita de Monte, a Cuban American artist who died a suspicious death nearly 15 years earlier. (general fiction)
3/5: Cirque du Slay by Rob Osler
When the director of a circus arts show is found dead and their friend Sarah is the prime suspect, teacher and gay dating blogger Hayden and friend Hollister investigate. (cozy mystery)
3/5: The Hunter by Tana French
In a small west Ireland village, ex-Chicago detective Cal Hooper has built a nice family and life, but when his wife’s ex turns up with a millionaire and a plan to find hidden gold in town, a murder and family dynamics set them all up on a collision course. (suspense/general fiction)
3/5: Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
Hero Tojosoa unexpectedly joins a bachelorette weekend in Prague. But the books she’s reading is behaving strangely, changing its text, and Prague itself is a living organism with its own tricks to play. (general fiction)
3/5: The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan
A young woman, an artist and composer in New York, wakes up with a drone in her ear and a swift diagnosis of Sudden Deafness. Over the course of the year, as she progresses to total deafness, she seeks out interactions, experiences, commiserations. (general fiction)
3/5: Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
The employees who stock a big box store in the dead of night get word that a manager is retiring, setting in motion a team plot for one of them to snag a management job in this workplace comedy. (satire/general fiction)
3/5: Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin
This latest in the Tales of the City series travels to Britain’s Cotswolds, as Mona Ramsey prepares to welcome guests Michael Tolliver and Anna Madrigal, but instead finds herself pulled into the secrets of a vacationing American couple. (general fiction)
3/5: Murder Road by Simone St. James
Summer 1995, and April and Eddie get lost on their way to their honeymoon destination and instead find themselves embroiled in a string of unsolved murders – simultaneously suspects and investigators. (mystery/paranormal)
3/5: Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet
Izzy, a young Cuban American man, is trying to start over after a cease-and-desist for his Pitbull impersonation gigs; maybe he’ll pivot to Al Pacino? Lolita is a killer whale at Miami’s Seaquarium, lonely and bored and remembering when she was in community. Where do the two intersect? Read to find out. (general fiction)
3/5: The Woman in the Sable Coat by Elizabeth Brooks
In WWII England, Nina enlists in the British Royal Air Force, and begins an affair with officer Guy; meanwhile in Kate’s hometown, Guy’s wife Kate seeks companionship with Nina’s father Henry. Secrets and misunderstandings complicate the foursome’s present and possible futures. (historical fiction)
3/12: Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
In this coming-of-age novel, a young Black man goes to work for the 2008 presidential campaign of a Black Illinois senator, along the way searching for inspiration and purpose while reflecting on his past, race and identity, art, and more. (general fiction)
3/12: Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu
With the world divided into two groups–the Pacific League and the Atlantic Alliance–at constant war with one another, three scientists from the Pacific League form an uneasy alliance to approach recently arrived, peaceful aliens that may hold the key to a better future, only to find out everything they think they know about human history to be wrong. (science fiction)
3/12: Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
The rough desert city Ashtown lives in the shadow of the walled, luxurious Wiley City. When dead bodies start to pop up in both cities, Ashtown enforcer Scales teams up with an Ashtown detective and a Wiley City scientist, but they’re unprepared for the answers they uncover. By the author of The Space Between Worlds. (science fiction)
3/19: James by Percival Everett
Literary mainstay Everett returns with a novel that imagines the events of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, an enslaved man who hides on Jackson Island to avoid being sold away from his family, where he meets Huck Finn. (historical fiction)
3/19: Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
Three Chinese American women become friends in 1983, and remain friends for the next 60 years as they grapple with ambition, their dedication to art, and a future that looks drastically different from what they each imagined. (general fiction)
3/19: The Morningside by Téa Obreht
Driven from their homeland, Silvia and her mother move in with her Aunt Ena, who manages a crumbling tower. Sil, hungry for stories of her family and their history, finds in Ena an eager storyteller. As stories of family and folklore swirl, Sil fixates on a mysterious neighbor. (general fiction)
3/19: The Tree Doctor by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
A Japanese American woman returns home to take care of her mother, leaving her husband and daughters in Hong Kong, only to find herself when the pandemic begins. Isolated, she grows obsessed with her mother’s garden, and drawn to an arborist known as the Tree Doctor. (general fiction)
3/26: How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
In 1965, a fortune teller tells teenager Frances that she will be murdered. So begins Frances’s lifelong effort to solve her own murder. In the present day, Annie is summoned to her great-aunt Frances’s estate, where she’ll call on Frances’s own research to aid her in catching a killer. (mystery)
3/26: The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn
After Jess Green’s mother disappeared with a con man, she kept the situation details secret as she raised her younger sister, Tegan. But now Tegan has listened to a podcast about the con man and made the connection to her mom, so the two sisters and the two podcasters set off on a road trip to track down the truth. (general fiction)
And don’t miss the March Peak Picks titles!
~ posted by Andrea G.
Leave a Comment