Authorlink Chat: The Sun Sets in Singapore, Kehinde Fadipe, Grand Central Publishing – Dara has been working for years to advance to partner in her law firm in Singapore and is almost there. Amaka is a banker with an addiction for luxury goods she buys with passion. Lillian was a concert pianist before she married Warren and moved with him to Singapore.
Authorlink Chat: The River Runs South, Audrey Ingram, Alcove Press – Camille’s life as a Washington, DC lawyer with a loving husband and strong-willed young daughter is hectic but satisfying.
You Were Always Mine, Christine Pride & Jo Piazza, Atria Books – Cinnamon’s life is turned upside down when she finds a white newborn baby in the park where she usually met her friend, Daisy.
Interiew: Between Two Moons, Aisha Abdel Gawad, Doubleday – Amira and Lina are teen-age twin sisters about to graduate from high school in the Arab American enclave of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.
Interview: The Housekeepers, Alex Hay, Graydon House – The master of the house has just died, and his daughter has taken over.
Who is the victim of Day’s Block Party? Interview – The Block Party, Jamie Day, St Martins Press – The exclusive Alton Road cul-de-sac Block Party is always a big deal, but no one would have guessed what kind of a big deal this year’s party would turn into.
Authorlink Chat: Night Wherever We Go, Tracey Rose Peyton, Ecco – Six women are a struggling Texas plantation’s only slaves. They labor in the cotton fields and carry out other daily chores, but it isn’t enough to keep the farm thriving.
Go as a River, Shelley Read, Speigel & Graus – A chance meeting on a street corner changes the course of 17-year-old Victoria Nash’s life. Wilson Moon, a young Native American, has just drifted into the small Colorado farming town of Iola near where Victoria’s family grows their famous Nash peaches.
Interview: A Country You Can Leave, Asale Angel-Ajani, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Lara and her mother, Yevgenia, never stay in one place for long. Yevgenia is a Russian immigrant with strong opinions about life. Sixteen-year-old Lara’s absent father was a Black musician.
River Sing Me Home, Eleanor Shearer, Berkley – Britain’s emancipation of its Caribbean slaves made little difference in Rachel’s life. She had no choice but to continue working at the plantation where she had been enslaved.
