Radical Solidarity

Lisa G. Materson

"Radical Solidarity" tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (1916–89), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of nationalist revolutionaries during Puerto Rico's long struggle for independence. Reynolds dedicated her life to ending US control of the archipelago.

Where's Jukie?

Andy Jones

Where's Jukie? uses poems by Dr. Andy Jones and essays by Kate Duren to present the joys and challenges of raising their son Jukie, a boy with autism and Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome. The authors of this book -- the parents of three children, including Jukie -- together have more than 50 years experience reading and communicating emotions with deft and wit, and counseling parents and children with special challenges.

In the Almond Orchard

Andy Jones

In the Almond Orchard: Coming Home from War represents the experiences of American veterans who have served overseas, and who are readjusting to life in the United States, especially California, after their service. With power and bravery, Dr. Andy Jones speaks to the struggle of those who must hold within themselves two people, and exchange one life for another.

Karst Mountains Will Bloom

Pos Moua

This open-hearted book is the gorgeous collection of a visionary Hmong poet whose radiant language and natural eloquence has offered us the dark and light of his soul. Karst Mountains Will Bloom is a landmark achievement: ascendant, transcendent, visionary. This poet is a treasure and a light. What an important collection for Asian American literature.

Ward Toward

Cindy Juyoung Ok

In the 118th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Cindy Juyoung Ok moves assuredly between spaces — from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided countries to hospice wards. Ok’s resolute, energized debut shifts language’s fissures to reassemble them into a new place of belonging.

Personification

Margaret Ronda

Personification, by Margaret Ronda, undertakes dreamlike journeys through crumbling architecture and airless interiors, discovering anachronistic and apocalyptic emblems among the commonplace particulars of modern day life.

Life in a Field

Katie Peterson

A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Peterson’s slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs by Young Suh. Life in a Field tries to reverse our accelerating destruction of the natural world, reminding us of “the cold clarity we need to continue on this earth.”

Becoming Modern Women

Michiko Suzuki

Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book, by Michiko Suzuki, breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century.

The End of Engagement

David M. McCourt

In The End of Engagement, David M. McCourt traces the intense personal, professional, and policy struggles over China and Russia in U.S. foreign policy since 1989. Drawing on 200 original interviews with America's China and Russia experts—from former policymakers and diplomats to prominent think tankers and academics—McCourt chronicles the rise and recent fall of "engagement" with Beijing and Moscow.

Riding Like the Wind

Iris Jamahl Dunkle

In "Riding Like the Wind," renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. Dunkle follows Babb from her impoverished childhood in eastern Colorado to California. There, she befriended the era's literati, including Ray Bradbury and Ralph Ellison; entered into an illegal marriage; and was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that Steinbeck relied on to write his novel. "Riding Like the Wind" reminds us with fresh awareness that the stories we know—and who tells them—can change the way we remember history.