["TimeOff Books ROUNDUP Fresh reads for February By Annabel Gutterman A crop of new books this month asks readers to consider their roots. Some of the authors of February\u2019s most antici- pated releases mine their histories to un- derstand how the places they come from have shaped who they are. Others craft narratives that explore the complications that come with moving away but never on from the past. Some voices, like Clare Beams and R.\u00a0Eric Thomas, are emerging. Others, like veterans Colum McCann and Erik Larson, are celebrated. All are explor- ing how attachments to home define the contours of our lives. DJINN PATROL ON THE THE ILLNESS LESSON PURPLE LINE CLARE BEAMS DEEPA ANAPPARA After a strange flock of birds flies In journalist Anappara\u2019s first into town in Beams\u2019 debut novel, novel, a 9-year-old crime-show the students at an all-girls school fanatic attempts to find his in 19th century Massachusetts missing classmate. Jai and begin to develop headaches, his two friends search all rashes and odd sleepwalking over the smoggy, unnamed habits. As they grow sicker, a Indian city where children keep doctor with a questionable track disappearing, devastating the record is invited to campus, his community. Though the premise presence underlining a timely is bleak\u2014there are thousands of conversation about who claims real cases of missing children in control of women\u2019s bodies. Indian cities\u2014the protagonist\u2019s youthful perspective makes a (Feb. 11) moving case for perseverance A MAP IS ONLY ONE STORY and hope. (Feb.\u00a04) NICOLE CHUNG AND MENSAH DEMARY (EDITORS) BROTHER & SISTER DIANE KEATON How do we define home? The 20 voices in this essay collection The Academy Award\u2013winning seek to articulate what it feels actor intimately describes loving like to live between cultures. and living with a troubled sibling, From stories about being tracing her childhood with her undocumented in the U.S. to brother Randy. Though they living on the border with Mexico, were close as kids, their paths these personal narratives diverged in adulthood: Randy delve into the challenges\u2014and struggled with alcoholism and power\u2014that we derive from our mental illness, while Keaton rose to prominence in the film connections to place. (Feb.\u00a011) industry. Illustrating years they spent both together and apart, SHUGGIE BAIN Keaton showcases the difficulties DOUGLAS STUART of loving someone you can never In his debut novel, Stuart fully understand. (Feb. 4) focuses on a working-class family living in 1980s Glasgow, 50 Time\u2002February 10, 2020","where alcoholism threatens was about to endure a very violent the unit\u2019s stability and sanity. year: Adolf Hitler\u2019s bombing He narrows in on struggling campaign would kill more mother Agnes and her youngest than 40,000 citizens. Larson son Shuggie, who is coming to delves into the impact of those terms with his sexuality. Stuart 12 months on Churchill and his charts the evolution of their family, painting a complex portrait relationship over several years, of leadership and determination offering a heartbreaking story in the midst of chaos and fear. about identity, addiction and (Feb. 25) abandonment. (Feb.\u00a011) APEIROGON AMNESTY COLUM MCCANN ARAVIND ADIGA After both their daughters are The Booker Prize winner\u2019s latest brutally murdered, a Palestinian novel follows house cleaner and an Israeli bond over their Danny, who fled Sri Lanka and is enormous losses. Inspired by the living undocumented in Australia. true friendship between Bassam Danny faces an impossible Aramin and Rami Elhanan, the dilemma after learning critical latest novel from the National details about the murder of one Book Award winner blends fiction of his clients. If he speaks up, the with history to examine how life he worked so hard to build two men channel their grief into could be threatened, but if he political power as they become stays silent, the truth may never advocates for peace in the come to light. The novel takes place over the course of one day, Middle\u00a0East. (Feb.\u00a025) but Danny\u2019s decision highlights a lifetime of real-world anxieties. MINOR FEELINGS CATHY PARK HONG (Feb.\u00a018) Hong dissects her experiences REAL LIFE as an Asian American to create BRANDON TAYLOR an intricate meditation on racial awareness in the U.S. Through At the center of this aching debut a\u00a0combination of cultural is Wallace, a gay black graduate criticism\u00a0and personal stories, student at an overwhelmingly Hong, a poet, lays bare the white Midwestern university. Over the course of a summer Diane Keaton weekend, Wallace unveils the pain he\u2019s been carrying his whole has written life through several interactions with his friends, who understand three titles, little about where he comes from. As Taylor exposes the layers of in addition to his protagonist\u2019s existence, he crafts a gripping narrative on editing and racism, queerness and trauma. publishing (Feb. 18) multiple books HERE FOR IT R. ERIC THOMAS on\u00a0photography What does it mean to belong? shame\u00a0and confusion she felt Thomas poses this question in her youth as the daughter throughout his essay collection of Korean immigrants, and the as he explores all the places he way those feelings morphed as never fit in, from his conservative she grew older. From analyzing black church to the primarily Richard Pryor\u2019s stand-up to white school he attended. With interrogating her relationship humor and heart, he dissects the with\u00a0the English language, experience of being black and Hong\u00a0underscores essential gay in America, simultaneously themes of identity and otherness. inspecting the ways the country is evolving. (Feb. 18) (Feb.\u00a025) THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE 51 ERIK LARSON When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Britain","8 Questions Jenny Han The YA author on the film adaptation of her To All the Boys trilogy, the power of rom-coms and her best love advice P.S. I Still Love You picks up \u2018I WANT TO you still see a need for progress in where the previous book left representation in the movies? I want HEAR FROM to hear from people we haven\u2019t heard off. Your main character, Lara PEOPLE WE from before. I hope that\u2019s where this is HAVEN\u2019T HEARD going, and that the representation will Jean, has a boyfriend, but now finds just get wider. Not just with race, but \u2019FROM BEFORE with size and sexuality. There\u2019s so much herself feeling insecure. How do you more to explore. EMMA MCINTYRE\u2014GETTY IMAGES get into the mindset of a teenager? What was your high school I really don\u2019t approach it any differently experience like? I had a really great than when I\u2019m writing for adults. It\u2019s all time in high school. I went to a magnet just a human experience\u2014and you can school. If you were cool, you were still feel insecure about your relationship like a nerd. And it was a really diverse and be thinking about his past school. So I felt like going into it, I just girlfriends when you\u2019re 40 years old. It\u2019s learned so much about other cultures approaching those \u201cteenage\u201d emotions that I never would have known about if with the same respect and seriousness I had stayed in my regular school. as you would for an adult love story. How do you use social media to reach There are a lot of firsts in P.S. I Still Love You. First boyfriends, first your readers, and what are those dates. What\u2019s a memorable first for interactions like? I feel very close to you? Everything went wrong on the them and worried for them. It\u2019s hard night of my first dance. I was 15 or 16, sometimes to even read some of their and my date got into a car accident on questions because I feel scared for the way. After, he was shaken up, so he them. There are so many hard aspects drove really slowly. He parked really far of being on social media, but one of the away from the dance and it was raining really positive ones is that you have a so hard. We walked all the way up to direct line to talk to your readers and the school, and a low-hanging branch connect, and to me, storytelling is all knocked me in the head. I have pictures about connecting with people. of myself from that night and I have a mark on my forehead. Oh, and when Do a lot of young people come to we got to school, he realized he left the you for love advice? Yes, and not just tickets in the car. young people\u2014even people in their 30s. Romantic comedies are having I love giving advice. I\u2019m just careful because I don\u2019t want to give the a comeback, but they were long wrong advice. I try to be honest and not tell people just criticized for perpetuating what they want to hear, but what I think is right. A lot of stereotypes. How do you address their questions are like, \u201cAm those concerns? 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