A few snapshots from October reviews … Here Is a Game We Could Play
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A New Review of The Beforeland… in THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW!
We’re just a little excited to announce that an Acre book has finally appeared in the Book Review section of The New York Times, and none are more deserving of this honor than Corinna Vallianatos’s brilliant novel The Beforeland.
Starred Kirkus Review of Big Familia
“A quiet, thoughtful story about coming-of-age at middle age.” Kirkus released a starred review of Big Familia by Tomas Moniz, coming November 2019 from Acre Books. This is a story of making family and making mistakes, of rending and of mending. As a Latinx queer...
Starred Kirkus Review of Spider Love Song and Other Stories
Excerpt from the starred Kirkus reviewCongratulations to Nancy Au and her upcoming short story collection, Spider Love Song and Other Stories, for receiving a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. You can read the full review here and preorder the book on our website....
Foreword Reviews: Starred Review of Spider Love Song and Other Stories
Many thanks to Foreword Reviews for their starred review of Nancy Au’s upcoming short fiction collection Spider Love Song and Other Stories, which will appear in their September/October issue. Spider Love Song and Other Stories includes seventeen stories that tread...
Kirkus and Foreword Review EVERY HUMAN LOVE
We’re excited by the two terrific prepub reviews of Joanna Pearson’s Every Human Love, which will appear this May. Kirkus calls the collection “Intriguing and satisfying.” And Foreword’s review (due out in their May/June issue) reads: Imaginative and haunting, Every...
Kirkus Reviews Kirkpatrick
Great KIRKUS review of Acre’s first 2019 title—Matthew Kirkpatrick’s innovative and affecting novel due out next month!
JMWW reviews A STRANGE AND TRUE TALE
JMWW weighs in with glowing review for THE STRANGE AND TRUE TALE OF HORACE WELLS, SURGEON DENTIST.
Two Rave Reviews
Acre’s next release, Sara Kersting’s debut novel Duty to Warn, has garnered two rave prepub reviews—one in Kirkus, and another (starred) in Foreword. Congrats, Sara! The book is due out October 15, but Amazon is taking preorders now. . . .
Rave Reviews for Acre’s Offerings
Sara Kersting’s Duty to Warn—due out in October—has already racked up two amazing reviews: one in Kirkus, another (starred!) forthcoming in Foreword, which hails the book as “a finely tuned, suspenseful chase story . . . captivating.”Annnnddd, The Strange and True...