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Rumi is the bestselling poet of all time in the U.S. and the world at large. The Rumi poems in this novel are all original translations by the author, Ari Honarvar. Deepak Chopra very rarely blurbs but was drawn to this project; his endorsement will significantly raise its profile as a debut novel. A major theme of A Girl Called Rumi is how storytelling can transcend and transform trauma, which will appeal to booksellers, librarians, and reviewers.Ari Honarvar's work with asylum seekers has earned her fans and a platform on a hot political issue as well as connections with influential nonprofits and authors who admire what she does, including Deepak Chopra and the Chopra Center. A Girl Called Rumi is an #ownvoices novel. Blurbs forthcoming include one from Mirabai Starr, who has a huge platform and made the 2020 Watkins List of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People of the World."Self-care themes are big right now with readers, given the pandemic and stay at home orders; in fall 2021, even if there's a vaccine circulating, a book about coming to terms with one's past should still hit a strong societal chord.

"As a last-ditch effort to save his marriage, Lewis--an East Coast suburban Jew who has run from his roots--buys a cabin on a wild and scenic river in the Cascade foothills; after the marriage falls apart, he moves to the woods and makes the long commute every morning to Salem, the state capital, where he works a tedious government job. Skye stays with him on weekends, leaving behind her middle-school friends, her cellular service, her cat, and her mom in exchange for ancient trees and clear water and moss-covered rocks. In fifty-two vignettes-one for each week of the year-that alternate between Lewis's perspective and Skye's, the novel traces their days foraging for mushrooms and searching for newts, arguing over jigsaw puzzles and confronting menacing neighbors, hosting skeptical visitors and taking city jaunts, finding pleasure in small moments of wonder and coping with devastating loss. By turns comic and heartbreaking, Trust Me is a study of the uneasy bond between a hapless father and his precocious daughter, of their love for a complex and changing landscape, of the necessity and precariousness of the relationships and places we cherish most"--

"The Queen of Steeplechase Park is the absolutely, positively, practically, almost-true story of infamous burlesque queen and magic meatball maker Belladonna Marie Donato. Pregnant at fifteen after gleefully losing her virginity to pansexual neighborhood strongman Francis Anthony Mozzarelli, she is robbed of her baby by a pack of nefarious nuns and her embittered papa has her sterilized without her consent (legal in 1935). With the help of a besotted Francis and her top-secret meatball recipe, a devastated Bella embarks on a riotous quest through Depression-era Coney Island sideshows, the tawdry world of peek-a-boo striptease routines, a queer mob marriage, and a tasty collection of wisdom-filled recipes to find her lost child, herself, and maybe even true love. It all leads Bella back home, to the scene of her Original Sin, where she boldly faces matters of life and death, questions of forgiveness, and a holy mess only the healing properties of great Italian cooking can fix"--

"An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godâinez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the reanimation process erased. With elements of science fiction, horror, political satire and romance, Chicano Frankenstein confronts our nation's bigotries and the question of what it truly means to be human."--

Includes readers guide with discussion questions.

"Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Fiction. Kesha Ajose-Fisher's No God like the Mother follows characters in transition, through tribulation and hope. Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in Paris, and the rain-washed suburbs of the Pacific Northwest--this collection of nine stories is a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty"--

Neil Cochrane's third novel will build on his existing fan base of queer readers; he published two previous books under different namesTrans protagonists are underrepresented in fiction; trans authors are underrepresented as wellTwo sensitivity reads were completed for race and aromanticismThe Story of the Hundred Promises engages many aspects of queerness (including gender identity and aromanticism) and represents different types of family units, allowing for many readers to find depictions of themselves in the bookThose who struggle with depression and those who seek realistic depictions of mental health in fiction will appreciate The Story of the Hundred Promises, particularly the character MerriganAs our society continues to do better with asking/sharing pronouns, a book set in a world where pronoun announcements are part of every formal greeting will be appreciated and celebrated, especially by the LGBTQIA+ community and those who are often, frustratingly misgenderedThe novel includes a book club section featuring readers' guide questions and more information about the worldbuildingThis hopeful epic will appeal to fantasy readers seeking an escape from the ongoing harsh reality of the pandemicThe Story of the Hundred Promises taps into the age-old story of a child grappling with a father's disapprovalThe cover features the colors of the nonbinary flagNeil is represented by Michaela Whatnall of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret