New sci-fi by Emily St. Jon Mandel, stunning poetry by Ocean Vuong, and more great books coming this April

Plus: Love story Young Mungo, Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s Take My Hand, and The Odyssey (no, not that one)

By Alison Foreman, Gabrielle Sanchez  |  March 25, 2022 | 7:05pm
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New sci-fi by Emily St. Jon Mandel, stunning poetry by Ocean Vuong, and more great books coming this April
Sea Of Tranquility (Knopf), Time Is A Mother (Penguin Press), The Odyssey (Hamish Hamilton), Young Mungo (Grove Press), Take My Hand (Berkley) Graphic: Rebecca Fassola

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the books we’re most excited about.

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Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
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Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (April 12, Berkley)Dolen Perkins-Valdez returns to the page almost seven years since her last novel with Take My Hand—an epic piece of historical fiction inspired by true events. It tells the story of Civil Townsend, a Black nurse living in 1973 Montgomery who must grapple with the horrors of post-segregation Alabama first-hand. A heart-wrenching page-turner as relevant as ever, Perkins-Valdez presents a smart way in for Americans ready to illuminate history’s darkest corners so that we may forward meaningful change in the present. [Alison Foreman]

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