UNP Books on NetGalley

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Peruse the forthcoming titles that are available on the platform this month:

Have You Landed?

EMMA COMERY

Have You Landed? offers nuanced portraits of life across the U.S. military—Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and National Guard—and includes the experiences of wives, husbands, partners, widows, and exes. It describes life as a modern military partner and the commitment to a lifestyle that often challenges our notions of love, family, strength, and self.

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

PATRICIA JABBEH WESLEY

In conversation with Africa and her new homeland of America, Wesley’s craft is imbued with Grebo oral tradition, bringing her language alive as she makes the reader cry out in anger or laughter.

Vulture Gold

MICAH DEAN HICKS

Welcome to a dark country of sadness and wonder. Where a wedding dress turns a reluctant bride into a flock of birds, and families put on their wolf coats before devouring one another. These growling, prickly-feathered stories blur the lines between human and animal, living and dead.

Pyrrhic Symphony

ADAM O. DAVIS

By turns ecstatic and demonic, tender and terrifying, the poems in Pyrrhic Symphony stand as an act of musical witness and cautious hope in this age of corrupted wonder.

Oklahoma Reconsidered

SARAH EPPLER JANDA AND PATRICIA LOUGHLIN

Oklahoma Reconsidered provides a concise and conversational history of Oklahoma from the 1700s and into the twenty-first century by two historians who show how Oklahoma has been shaped by wars, epidemics, civil rights movements, and unified efforts to heal after devastating terrorist attacks.

Paul VanDevelder’s propulsive and kaleidoscopic essays give a sense of the West we want as well as the West we have created, with all the messiness, uncertainty, and joy that life in a tough place produces.

Every Sky at Home

JOE WILKINS

Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana, and make no mistake—those sagebrush-studded prairies and hard badlands raised him just as much as did his mother, as his elderly grandfather, as the memory of his father, who died young, leaving his family mired in poverty. Older now than his own father ever was, Wilkins reckons with this inheritance of landscape and loss and catalogs his travels across the country.

Be a Man

RUSSELL ROWLAND

Combining his personal story with historical, regional, and media perspectives about the West, this book is Rowland’s effort to let others know that the journey to manhood need not be solo.

Have You Seen Romit?

CHITAL MEHTA

Have You Seen Romit? is a story about Usha, a middle-aged mother, who sets out on a harrowing journey to find her missing son in the dense forests of southern India.

HUM

SANAM SHERIFF

The word “hum” in Urdu can mean both “we” and “I.” In English, it’s a gesture of sound—a vibration. Sanam Sheriff’s HUM is a trans call to the beauty of attempt rather than the clarity of arrival. This book seeks as the pilgrim seeks, wandering from a plural sense of self with a lyric attunement to the wound’s power.

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