"In the United States, at least, February is a time for remembering the feats of Black communities in America, the lives of its greatest presidents, the plight of a single large frightened rodent, even love itself (and its various totems that you're expected to purchase). Whew, that's a whole lot of remembering to pack into the shortest month of the year."
"Rivera Garza won the Pulitzer Prize for 2023's Liliana's Invincible Summer, a "genre-bending account" of her sister's life and murder that blends elements of memoir, investigative journalism and history. Autobiography of Cotton is the second book from the Mexican author's backlist to receive an English translation since her Pulitzer win, and it shares a characteristic disdain for compartmentalization. This time she weaves in enough historical fiction to warrant calling this Autobiography a "novel.""
February in the United States collects multiple commemorations — Black History, presidential remembrances, Groundhog Day and Valentine's Day — creating a crowded month. Readers are invited to set aside backlogs and explore new releases and translations. New notable books include works by Michael Pollan, Tayari Jones and Mario Vargas Llosa, alongside translations from Cristina Rivera Garza. Rivera Garza's Autobiography of Cotton blends historical fiction, historiography and family history to portray ill-starred cotton farmers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and resists simple genre labels. Andrew S. Curran's Biography of a Dangerous Idea reassesses Enlightenment-era conceptions of race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson.
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