Fall Indie Books
Counterpoint
The Revisioners
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
(Nov., $25, hardcover)
Publicity & marketing
highlights: Author tour in
California and the South,
including the SIBA and
NCIBA fall regional trade
shows.
“Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
weaves a powerful tale exploring the meaning of motherhood in the face of treacherous
and undeniable obstacles, whether they be the desire for freedom in pre–Civil War
Louisiana, the violence of the Klan in the post–Red Summer South, or the difficult
navigation of identity in a very much not postracial America,” says Morgan McComb
of the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kans.Drawn & Quarterly
King of King Court
Travis Dandro (Aug.,
$29.95, trade paper)
First printing: 12,000
Publicity & marketing
highlights: Author appearances;
literary buzz campaign; library
marketing; library, academic,
and YA outreach; Junior
Library Guild pick.
In a starred review, PW
praised this debut graphic
memoir as “an extended
poetic gaze on intergenerational helplessness and the violence it begets.... This glori-
ously scribbled story doesn’t rest on easy morals, or even attempt to forgive the past—
Dandro’s triumph is drawing the reader through both the pain and beauty of his
upbringing, and then moving forward.”Europa Editions
Incidental Inventions
Elena Ferrante, illus. by Andrea
Ucini, trans. from the Italian by
Ann Goldstein (Nov., $20,
hardcover)
Announced first printing: 40,000
Publicity & marketing highlights:
Preorder campaign; regional holiday
catalogues; library promotion; social
media campaign using illustrations
and quotes from the book.
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