Releases that caught my eye this week and a little about them from the publisher’s synopsis!
Our Cut Of Salt by Deena Helm
288 pages
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
fiction horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all. Our Cut of Salt is a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home, to lose it, and to return, only to find it irrevocably changed.
I am picking up a copy this week at my local indie bookstore! This has been all over my side of Booktok with great reviews so looking forward to diving into it.
About the Author
DEENA HELM is a mixed Palestinian-American author, and Our Cut of Salt is her debut novel. Her other works can be found in Fikra Magazine and So To Speak. She asks that you, the reader, do everything in your power to resist genocide and deepen your commitment to liberation for all.
In the Woods They Wait by Carrie Lee South
304 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company
fiction horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
A park ranger in Devil’s Den becomes obsessed with the case of a missing child—a case that mirrors the disappearance of her own brother, whom she lost in the woods many years ago—and the possibility that both were taken by something vicious and unnatural that lives deep in the Ozarks
About the Author
Fun fact: The author’s is Amy Lee, the co-founder and lead singer of the rock band, Evanescence.
Carrie Lee South earned her MFA at the Arkansas Writers Workshop where she served as the fiction editor for the literary magazine Arkana. She’s currently the fiction editor at StoryBottle Co. Her work has appeared in Waxwing, F(r)iction, Iron Horse Literary Review, Tales to Terrify, and elsewhere. When she’s not reading and writing, she’s spending time with birds—the ones outside and the four parrots that live in her house.
