Some new books releasing this month! My taste is books tends to be a bit serious and dark and that is in full-effect with this list. So if you love literary fiction, you’ll definitely love this selection.
February 4
A Season of Light
Julie Iromuanya
A fictional tale tying together a story across the Atlantic, between Florida and Nigeria. Illustrating how generational trauma entangles families, the story begins with Fidelis Ewerike has flashbacks to the Nigerian Civil War and his sister who went missing. Desiring to save his daughter Amara from his sister’s fate, Ewerike locks her in her room.
The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons
Peter Handke
Translated by Krishna Winston
Two novellas from Nobel Prize-winner Peter Handke. The first serves as a continuation to Handke’s earlier work The Fruit Thief. The second novella takes up the case of a man possessed by demons who goes to ‘the other land’ to receive an exorcism.
The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers
Sarah Tomlinson
A novel following as the thematic continuation of Daisy Jones & The Six, follows a ghost writer hired to help write a memoir and ends up falling into the legends and romances of a rock band.
Junie
Erin Crosby Eckstine
A heart-pulling tale following 16 year old Junie, enslaved on the Bellereine Plantation when one day, she awakens her sister’s ghost and must free her. She comes to navigate the truths of her life and has to make difficult choices for the people she loves.
February 11
The Riveter
Jack Wang
Following Josiah Chang, a Chinese Canadian wanting to serve in Second World War and ends up working as a riveter working on ships in Vancouver. To prove himself he travels to Toronto where he is allowed to enlist, and serves as part of the battalion at Normandy on D-Day.
The Pale Flesh of Wood
Elizabeth A. Tucker
A devastating narrative exploring familial trauma of different generations of the Hawkins family. The family must reconcile their guilt to carry on together following an unexpected suicide of the patriarch of the family.
February 18
Elegy, Southwest
Madeleine Watts
A couple on a two-week road trip through Nevada, California, Arizona, and Utah, examine their crumbling relationship and the changing landscape that has shaped them as individuals.
Let me know what you’re looking forward to reading this month! You can also check out the fiction releases from January here.
