26 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ MARCH 2, 2020
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
by Rivka Galchen
U.S. publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
no pub date yet
Katharina Kepler, the eccentric, elderly mother of 17th-cen-
tury German astronomer and polymath Johannes Kepler,
finds both her reality and moral certainty challenged when
she’s accused of witchcraft by a neighbor, as the region begins
to succumb to a growing depravity.The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as Told to His Brother)
by David Levithan
U.S. publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, Feb. 2021
When Lucas’s brother, Aidan, returns from being missing with an explanation for
his absence that nobody believes, Lucas, his family, and their
community must discern whether he’s lost in a fantasy world
of his own making or if he’s actually telling the truth.Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
U.S. publisher: Grove Atlantic, Aug.
The author of H Is for Hawk offers a collection of essays about
the natural world, including accounts of her experiences and
wider meditations on love and loss.DeFiore and Company
Humans by Brandon Stanton
U.S. publisher: St. Martin’s, Oct.
In his new book, the photographer and author of Humans of New York widens his
range with interviews and photographs of people from more than 40 countries
around the world.Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel Moniz
U.S. publisher: Grove, Feb. 2021
The stories in this debut collection from the winner of the 2018 Alice Hoffman
Prize for Fiction, thematically linked by the ancient Egyptian symbol of Ouroboros,
explore human connection and the nature of good and evil.Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman
U.S. publisher: Scribner, June
The new psychological novel from the author of Girls On Fire centers on a woman
with no memory struggling to construct a new self, the scientists invested in
studying her, and the woman’s daughter, who longs to understand her mother’s
condition and identity.Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
Innocent Witnesses: World War II Viewed by
Children by Marilyn Yalom
U.S. publisher: Stanford Univ., Jan. 2021
Yalom’s final book, which will be completed by the acclaimed
late cultural historian’s son, is a collection of six accounts by
Yalom’s longtime friends of their childhood memories of how
war transformed their lives. Also included are Yalom’s ownRivka GalchenHelen MacdonaldMarilyn Yalom©nina subin© marzena pogorzaly© reid yalmon