Lashawn Harris

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Lashawn Harris |Howard French |Jonathan Mahler

Sarah Aziza. Catapult, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-64622-243-8Palestinian-American journalist and Fulbright fellow Aziza delivers a visceral debut autobiography that braids mental illness, queer identity, and generational trauma into a striking meditation on exile.

4 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Olia Hercules |Lashawn Harris |Howard French |Jonathan Mahler

Chef and cookbook author Hercules (Home Food) blends personal history with political urgency in this poignant account of her family’s roots in Ukraine. What begins as a visceral tale of survival and cultural preservation—Hercules recounts the emotional turmoil of persuading her parents, uncle, and aunt to flee Kakhovka in southeastern Ukraine and reunite in northern Italy after Russia invaded in 2022—soon becomes a meditation on the century that Hercules’s ancestors have spent in the region.