Rosie Schaap

Aug 21, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Rosie Schaap

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Aug 21, 2024 | lithub.com | Rosie Schaap

Day of love and lovers, of hearts and roses red! Is Geoffrey Chaucer, the great poet-pilgrim of medieval England, to blame for this? Some say so: that it was he who transformed the ordinary enough feast day of an ordinary enough saint (what business does a saint have with all this hearts-and-roses stuff, anyway?) into a festival of courtly love.

Aug 19, 2024 | bookshop.org | Rosie Schaap

Description From the acclaimed author of the "wonderfully funny and openhearted" (NPR) Drinking with Men comes a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book--equal parts memoir and social history--that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where she finds a path toward healing.

Jun 6, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Alexis Gumbs |Rosie Schaap |Carol Mithers |Brody Mullins

Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-0-374-60327-4This scintillating tour de force from poet Gumbs (Undrowned) traces the life of feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934–1992) in a free-ranging style as distinctive as its subject.

Jun 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Rosie Schaap |Carol Mithers |Brody Mullins |Luke Mullins

Edward Wong. Viking, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-1-9848-7740-6The upheavals that drove China’s diaspora are revisited in this resonant and moving debut. New York Times journalist Wong recaps his father Yook Kearn’s experiences of China’s 20th-century tumults, beginning with the 1942 Japanese invasion that forced him from Hong Kong to his family’s ancestral village of Hap Wo in Guangdong province, where he weathered the war.