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What We’re Excited to Read This Fall
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JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
THERE ARE MORE than a
few “big books” coming out
this fall.

Don DeLillo and Marilynne
Robinson both have forthcoming
novels, and Barack Obama
has the first of a two-volume
memoir coming in November.

Emma Cline, whose 2016 debut
novel “The Girls” spent three
months atop The New York
Times bestseller list and is in the
process of being adapted into a
movie, has a new book on its way
to a shelf near you.

Jerry Seinfeld is publishing
a book of his favorite material,
and Cazzie David, the daughter
of Seinfeld’s most famous
comedy partner, is releasing a
book of essays, too.

Below, we offer some new and
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exciting books that have a little
less buzz than those mentioned
above, written by (mostly)
Jewish authors, in order by their
release dates. At the very least,
the authors won’t be Nobel Peace
Prize winners or involved in the
creation of “Seinfeld.”
‘Transcendent Kingdom’
Yaa Gyasi (Sept. 1)
If Gyasi’s wonderful 2016 novel
“Homegoing” is any indication,
she has a keen sense for the poetry
of coincidence; that book dealt
with historical rhymes and echoes
through generations of a Ghanian
family, split in two. “Transcendent
Kingdom” narrows the aperture to
one Ghanian family in Alabama,
as Gifty, a neuroscience graduate
student, tries to make sense of the
suffering around her in any way
that she can.

‘Just Us: An American
Conversation’ Claudia Rankine (Sept. 8)
Graywolf Press is known for
publishing genre-mixing uncat-
egorizable books, and “Just Us”
fits into that, well, category.

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Rankine, a poet, combines
poetry, photos and essays to
create a swirling, intimate world
of arguments and observations
about America, white supremacy
and the way forward for us all.

‘Three Rings: A Tale of
Exile, Narrative and Fate’
Daniel Mendelsohn (Sept. 8)
Like fellow New York-based
magazine stalwart John McPhee,
Mendelsohn can make anything
he writes about interesting.

Both are at their best when
they’re writing about their pet
subjects and, for Mendelsohn,
that’s the intersections of Jewish
literature, classical literature,
exile, his own writing and his
family. Reading “Three Rings” is
reading Mendelsohn when he’s
very much at home.

‘Golem Girl: A Memoir’
Riva Lehrer (Oct. 6)
“I am a Golem,” Riva Lehrer
writes in her new illustrated
memoir. “My body was built by
human hands.” Exploring the
nature of disability, concepts of
“monstrosity” and art, Lehrer,
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