New in Paperback: âBecomingâ and âHidden Valley Roadâ
By Jennifer Krauss
DAYS OF DISTRACTION,
by Alexandra Chang. (Ecco, 320 pp., $16.99.) Our reviewer, Elisabeth Egan, called this âhonestâ fictional take on âwhat itâs like to feel invisibleâ when you work remotely for a tech publication and your boyfriend doesnât understand âthe loneliness of being Chinese-American in a sea of white facesâ a âthunderingly wiseâ debut novel from âa writer to watch.â
BECOMING,
by Michelle Obama. (Crown, 464 pp., $18.99.) âThose focused on sound bites will be missing the larger meaning of a serious work of candid reflection by a singular figure of early-21st-century America,â Isabel Wilkerson noted in her review of the former first ladyâs ârefined and forthright, gracefully written and at times laugh-out-loud funnyâ memoir. The paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.