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New releases at City Books
BY AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM
INDIE BOOKSELLER SPOTLIGHT is a regular column listing new releases at Pittsburgh book shops. Support local businesses and find your next favorite read.
City Books
908 Galveston Ave., North Side. citybookspgh.com
Saltwater Demands a Psalm
by Kweku Abimbola (Graywolf Press)
The debut from poet Kweku Abimbola draws from Ghana’s Akan tradition of naming babies according to the day of the week on which they were born.
House of Cotton
by Monica Brashears (Macmillan) Macmillan calls this story about a 19-year-old woman struggling to survive poverty a “stunning, contemporary Black southern gothic novel.”
The Great Reclamation
by Rachel Heng (Penguin Random House/Riverhead Books) Penguin Random House describes this novel about a boy in a Singapore fishing village as reckoning with “the legacy of British colonialism, the World War II Japanese occupation, and the pursuit of modernity.”
A Living Remedy
by Nicole Chung (HarperCollins)
This memoir from Nicole Chung finds the Korean-American author grappling with the continuing struggles of her immigrant parents and her comfortable, middle-class life.
Women
by Victor LaValle (Penguin Random House/Riverhead Books)
Celebrated horror-fantasy novelist Victor LaValle follows a Black woman fleeing with a mysterious steamer trunk to 1915 Montana, where she hopes to start a new life as a homesteader.
