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April showers bring new books that will make staying indoors a bit more appealing. This month’s most anticipated releases include The Wedding Date author Jasmine Guillory’s first foray into sapphic romance, the latest self-help book from celebrity psychic and healer Laura Day, and Kate Folk’s hilarious and touching portrait of a woman who dreams of marrying an airplane. (Yes, you read that right.)
The other must-reads of April include New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo’s deeply reported and personal look at the history of Chinese exclusion in the U.S. and Morgan Jerkins’ follow-up to her 2021 fiction debut, Caul Baby. Bestselling French author Anne Berest and her sister Claire pay tribute to their great-grandmother, French art critic Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, with their newly translated novel. And Joan Didion’s posthumous release, Notes to John, marks the first publication of new material from the iconic author since her 2021 essay collection, Let Me Tell You What I Mean.
Below, the 15 books you should read in April.
I See You’ve Called in Dead, John Kenney (April 1)
John Kenney’s third novel I See You’ve Called in Dead begins with Bud Stanley, a 40-something obituary writer, killing himself off. Well, figuratively. After a particularly disastrous blind date, he drunkenly posts his obit to the website where he works. His brush with (fake) death sets him on a quest to attend the funerals of complete strangers in hopes of discovering what makes life truly worth living.
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Boat Baby, Vicky Nguyen (April 1)
NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen’s debut is a love letter to her refugee parents. Boat Baby follows Nguyen’s family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam to the U.S. in 1979 when she was just eight months old. She traces their journey across the South China Sea, where they were attacked by pirates, to the Malaysian refugee camp where they spent months…
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