Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Solnit, Nguyen, Russell, South, Mantel, and More

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Rebecca Solnit, Kevin Nguyen, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Mary South, Hilary Mantel, and more—that are publishing this week.

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Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit

Here’s what  about : “Author and activist Solnit () writes in this enlightening, nonlinear memoir of her life as a poor young woman in 1980s San Francisco and her development as a writer and feminist thinker. As a teen, Solnit fled a volatile home life to forge her path. She rented an apartment in a black neighborhood (‘I was the first white person to live in the building in seventeen years’) and acquired a writing desk from a friend who was nearly murdered by an ex (‘Someone tried to silence her. Then she gave me a platform for my voice’). While in graduate school, she worked at a museum—which informed the writing of her first book, —and struggled to be heard in a world that. This is a thinking person’s book about writing, female identity, and freedom by a powerful and motivating voice for change.”