" Redhead by the Side of the Road" (Knopf, April 7) is the Pulitzer Prize winner's latest about a middle-aged man whose stable, regimented life is thrown for a loop by his lover and a possible lovechild from his college days.
On the fiction side, veterans Anne Tyler, the late Madeleine L'Engle, and Sue Monk Kidd all have new books out. Today, Oprah's Book Club announced their April pick, Robert Kolker's " Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family," a deep dive into the story of the Galvins, one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health, shedding light on how the study, diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia developed in the second half of the 20th century. Miller examines the story of American taxonomist and ichthyologist David Starr Jordan who doesn't give up when his life work discovering and collecting fish is destroyed in an instant in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. And then there's "Invisibilia" podcast host Lulu Miller's book " Why Fish Don't Exist" (Simon & Schuster, April 14) which may not initially seem relevant to our current situation, but does in a roundabout way.
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Also in the non-fiction category is something that may help us deal with our transition to working at home, organization guru Marie Kondo's latest guide, " Joy at Work" (Little, Brown Spark, April 7), which offers at advice for how to declutter our workspaces and not become overwhelmed.
Highly anticipated is the insight that Madeleine Albright's " Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir" (Harper, April 14) will impart as she weaves geopolitics in with narratives of her own life. Plus, since many of these authors have had to cancel their book tours, buying books now is a great way to continue to support the literary community. Nevertheless, if you're looking for some reading material to get your mind off our stressful reality or to work through it, April has plenty of new releases on offer. That's how much our collective minds have been consumed by the global pandemic that has changed the world forever. Do you recall the various literary controversies that occurred earlier this year? No? It was fairly recent, yet it feels like a lifetime ago.
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