#forthcomingfriday

Happy #forthcomingfriday, book lovers! 🥶 It's bitterly cold in Chicago again, the perfect weather for cozying up inside with a big, juicy novel. Today we're digging into THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD, a multi-generational family saga set against the backdrop of Chicago, Evanston and Oak Park. Claire Lombardo is a keen observer of human nature, and the dynamics among her characters are fine-tuned and beautifully wrought. You'll find this deeply satisfying portrait of a family (Chicago's answer to Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE) on our shelves on June 25th. 🍂 #clairelombardo #themostfunweeverhad #bookstagram #bibliophile #indiebookstore (at Baker Miller) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtoE8ObnQFx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kzq092mc0wpw

🚨 Early warning 🚨 for fans of Melissa Broder, author of #sosadtoday: Broder's triumphantly bizarre & hilarious novel THE PISCES will drop in May, 2018! We're spending Friday laughing our way through this gem. 💎💎💎 What are y'all reading this weekend? ♓️ #forthcomingfriday #melissabroder #thepisces (at Bang Bang on Damen)

"You can't kill what's already dead. It's the only thing that's kept me alive all these years." 💀 From KL Pereira's A DREAM BETWEEN TWO RIVERS, due from @cutlasspressjp on September 5th. #forthcomingfriday #klpereira #adreambetweentworivers (at Unabridged Bookstore)

“I want to believe we’re moving forward as a society and this surge of bigotry and violence is the final kick and scream, a last-ditch effort to hang on to the white patriarchal systems that favor the privileged. . If we’re going to make it, we have to look at the fear. . We have to get into it. Throw it against the wall, stand back and take a good close look. It’s ugly: heavy, dark, and centuries in the making. You might want to move on, to turn it off, watch something else, but wait—look again. Look closer. How was it made? When was it made? What was happening when it was made? What are you going to do about it? And when are you going to start? . Now, I think. . Today.” • A few words of determination from Megan Stielstra’s THE WRONG WAY TO SAVE YOUR LIFE. Find it on our shelves on August 1st. ❤️ #forthcomingfriday #meganstielstra #thewrongwaytosaveyourlife (at Unabridged Bookstore)

"Making feminism a universal pursuit might look like a good thing, or at the very least a neutral thing, but in truth it progresses, and I think accelerates, a process that has been detrimental to the feminist movement, and that is the change of focus from society to the individual. What was once collective action and a shared vision for how women might work and live in the world has become identity politics, a focus on individual history and achievement, and an unwillingness to share space with people with different opinions, worldviews, and histories. It has separated us out into smaller and smaller groups, until we are left all by ourselves, with our concern and our energy directed inward instead of outward." • A small taste of Jessa Crispin's incendiary WHY I AM NOT A FEMINIST: A Feminist Manifesto. Find it on our shelves in February. #forthcomingfriday #jessacrispin #whyiamnotafeminist (at Unabridged Bookstore)

"When I read Sontag for the first time... I kept having those sudden, subtle, and possibly microchemical raptures—little lights flickering deep inside the brain tissue—back and forth with that some people experience when they finally find words for a very simple and yet till then unspeakable feeling. When someone else's words enter your consciousness like that, they become small conceptual light-marks. They're not necessarily illuminating. A match struck alight in a dark hallway, the light tip of a cigarette smoked in bed at midnight, embers in a dying chimney: none of these things has enough light of its own to reveal anything. Neither do anyone's words. But sometimes a little light can make you aware of the dark, unknown space that surrounds it, of the enormous ignorance that envelops everything we think we knew. And that recognition and coming to terms with darkness is more valuable then all the factual knowledge we may ever accumulate." – Valeria Luiselli • It's January 18th, and Katharine is  prepared to declare LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE her favorite novel of 2019. We can't wait to put this book in your hands when it pubs on February 12th. Pre-order today to receive 20% off. • #forthcomingfriday #valerialuiselli #lostchildrenarchive #bestbooksof2019 #indiebookstore #independentbookstore #bookstagram #booksandcoffee #bookporn #igreads (at The Grind Cafe Co) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsyCwyJnkkZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1y1u8hidhrmci

What are you reading on this perfect fall Friday? We’ve just gotten our mitts on the newest Meg Wolitzer novel, THE FEMALE PERSUASION. We’re loving Wolitzer’s first novel for adults since 2013’s spectacular THE INTERESTINGS. Find it on our shelves in April, 2018. 🎃 #forthcomingfriday #megwolitzer #thefemalepersuasion (at Unabridged Bookstore)

Happy #forthcomingfriday, friends! This week, Unabridged owner Ed took his ARC of local author Jonathan Eig's ALI: A LIFE all the way to the picturesque isle of Ischia. Here's what he thought of the book, which drops this Tuesday, October 3rd: "One doesn't have to be a boxing or sports fan to enjoy ALI: A LIFE. This appropriately outsized and first-rate biography is filled with anecdotes and stories from those who knew him well. I loved it!" #alialife #jonathaneig (at Ischia, Italy)