34 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ MARCH 2, 2020
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Unretouchable by Sofia Szamosi
U.S. publisher: Graphic Universe,
winter 2022
This YA graphic novel follows 18-year-
old Olive’s summer internship as a
photo retoucher at a fashion magazine,
and explores her subsequent under-
standing of the manipulative ability of
digital imagery, advertising, social
media, and their effects on body image.Jane Rotrosen Agency
Girls of Summer by Nancy Thayer
U.S. publisher: Ballantine, May
The author of Nantucket Wedding
returns with this novel, in which an
impending August storm threatens to
shatter the peace of Nantucket—and
its unexpected summer romances—
forcing its inhabitants discover what
they can and cannot control..The Lost Girls of Devon
by Barbara O’Neal
U.S. publisher: Lake Union, July
From the author of When We Believed in
Mermaids comes a novel featuring four
generations of Fairchild women and a
missing-persons case in an English
village.Truths I Never Told You
by Kelly Rimmer
U.S. publisher: Graydon House, Apr.
This novel by Rimmer (The Things We
Cannot Say) is about a woman grappling
with postpartum depression who
uncovers writings belonging to her late
mother that reveal heretofore unknown
ties.Sterling Lord Literistic
Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty
U.S. publisher: Scribner, Oct.
Beatty’s debut novel is a revisionist western tale with nods to
Looney Tunes and Flannery O’Connor.Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
by Barbara Demick
U.S. publisher: Random House, July
Journalist Demick, who reported on North Korea for her book
Nothing to Envy, examines Tibet and weaves the country’s com-
plex history with the continuous daily struggles of its citizens.A World on the Wing: Saving Migratory Birds on a
Changing Planet by Scott Weidensaul
U.S. publisher: Norton, Mar. 2021
Naturalist Weidensaul incorporates the latest science and
examples of conservation challenges in this examination of
bird migration.Trident Media Group
The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
U.S. publisher: no publisher yet
Published last year in New Zealand, The Absolute Book, an epic
fantasy, is the 14th novel from Knox.Jack by Marilynne Robinson
U.S. publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept.
Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities
Medal recipient, returns to the world of Gilead, Iowa, with
story of Jack Boughton, the beloved and wayward son of a
preacher.Modulo by YZ Chin
U.S. publisher: Ecco, summer 2021
This debut novel by Chin, winner of the Louise Meriwether
First Book Prize for her short story collection Though I Get
Home, follows a young Malaysian immigrant on the verge of
losing her U.S. work visa, whose husband suddenly disappears.The Ruins of Freedom: An Environmental History
of the Modern World by Sunil Amrith
U.S. publisher: Norton, 2023
Amrith—a Harvard professor, MacArthur fellow, and the
author of Crossing the Bay of Bengal—offers a work that braids
together environmental history and the history of capitalism
from 1500 to the present.William Morris Endeavor
Missionaries by Phil Klay
U.S. publisher: Penguin Press, Oct.
From the author of the National Book Award–winning short
story collection Redeployment comes a wartime novel set in
Colombia, about four entangled lives.The New Map by Daniel Yergin
U.S. publisher: Penguin Press, Sept.
Yergin, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and global energy
expert, offers an account of how energy revolutions, climate
battles, and geopolitics are mapping our global future.Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
U.S. publisher: Random House, June
This novel from the author of Prep and Eligible imagines a
deeply compelling what-if: “What if Hillary Rodham hadn’t
married Bill Clinton?”Sofia SzamosiNancy ThayerBarbara O’NealKelly Rimmer© jassica hills© bree baine