Publishers Weekly thinks these wonderful debut authors should be on your radar for Spring 2023!
BEYOND THAT, THE SEA BY LAURA SPENCE-ASH
“A young’s woman’s family loyalties are divided as she leaves her London home for Boston during WWII in Spence-Ash’s magnetic debut…The author’s choice to highlight an obscure corner of history with the overseas program adds a note of poignancy to Bea’s story, as her voyage took place shortly before two other ships were sunk by the Germans. As well, Spence-Ash generates a stronger emotional charge with her contrasting portrayals of the two families, whose cultural and economic differences make it difficult for Bea to find her own way. Readers will be riveted.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review
HOUSE OF COTTON BY MONICA BRASHEARS
“Orphaned 19-year-old Magnolia Brown is poor, Black, and stuck in a going-nowhere job at the gas station in her God-obsessed Southern town when a stranger offers her a job modeling at (of all places) a funeral home. It more than pays the bills, but her assignments are getting increasingly creepy.”–Library Journal Pre Pub Alert
THE FIVE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES OF ANDY AFRICA BY STEPHEN BUORO
“A teenager in northern Nigeria, Andrew Aziza hangs out with rough friends while discussing mathematical theorems and African identity with teacher Zahrah and brilliant friend Fatima, who’s crushing on him. Then he falls for Father McMahon’s niece, the first white girl he sees, but her welcoming party at the church is disrupted by a stranger claiming to be his father and the presence of an anti-Christian mob.”–Library Journal Pre Pub Alert
CLOSE TO HOME BY MICHAEL MAGEE
Two brothers struggle with substance abuse, unemployment, fraught family relationships, and identity as they journey through young adulthood in Belfast, Ireland.
BEYOND THAT, THE SEA by Laura Spence-Ash; 9781250854377; 3/21/23
HOUSE OF COTTON by Monica Brashears; 9781250851918; 4/4/23
THE FIVE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES OF ANDY AFRICA by Stephen Buoro; 9781635577778; 4/18/23
CLOSE TO HOME by Michael Magee; 9780374608323; 5/16/23
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