One of them gets ahead the other doesn’t. Two young Black women meet in a New York publishing house that is, as publishing is, overwhelmingly white. Harris spent three years in the editorial department of Knopf Doubleday but left to write this, her debut novel. The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris (Simon & Schuster, June 1): If there’s a case to be made for writing what you know, this might be it. Whatever your taste, we’ve picked 24 - mostly Canadian - titles to satisfy whatever your particular summer desires. But never fear: there are lots of books coming out this summer with sparkling writing, interesting themes or that simply offer a bit of pure escapism. This year is likely, well, different - some of us had plenty of time to read during a pandemic winter inside others of us couldn’t focus on a book if we tried. Summer’s usually a time when we dig into the huge to-be-read pile that’s accumulated over the winter.
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