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When Rufi Thorpe released her third book last spring, she captured the nostalgic grunge of youth better than almost anybody. In
The Knockout Queen, Michael and Bunny are next-door neighbors in Southern California: Michael is poor and gay, while Bunny is sporty, blond, and rich. They bond over many shared interests, but mostly over a feeling of not quite belonging in their ritzy community. Now Thorpe s coming-of-age tale is out in paperback, and the author joins EW to reminisce about her literary memories from her earliest writing days to the decisions she made while crafting
The Knockout Queen.
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Still riding high on the outrageous success of
One of Us Is Lying, Karen McManus is one of YA s biggest names. This fall she ll continue her thriller reign with another page-turner, and EW has the very first look at the book before it hits shelves on Nov. 30.
You ll Be the Death of Me is basically
Ferris Bueller s Day Off with murder. It follows three students at Carlton High: Ivy, who is humiliated after losing a recent student council election; Mateo, the school heartthrob who s balancing several jobs to help his family with bills; and Cal, an outsider who convinces the other two to skip school for a day. They wind up following a fellow student to his own murder, and the book unfolds as they try to solve the murder and figure out what each of them is hiding from the others.
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Imbolo Mbue and Patricia Engel may not be the most obvious author pairing: The former s singular, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel
Behold the Dreamers concerns the collapse of Lehman Brothers; the latter has written three books centered largely on Pan-American communities. But this month, both release highly sought-after, deeply emotional works that meditate on the importance and meaning of home. Engel s
Infinite Country follows a young Colombian couple, Elena and Mauro, as they journey from a FARC-occupied Bogotá to small-town Texas, where circumstances beyond their control lead to a visa overstay, a deportation for Mauro, and the separation of their family which now includes three small children.