{"id":5810,"date":"2026-03-15T02:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:04:47","slug":"5-sensational-new-books-for-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=5810","title":{"rendered":"5 Sensational New Books for April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Releasing this April, we have stunning short story collection from Kim Choyeop<\/a> and a much anticipated new novel from American poet Ben Lerner. Enjoy 5 Sensational New Books for April 2026!<\/p>\n

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5 Sensational New Books for April 2026<\/h2>\n

Liar\u2019s Dice by Juliet Faithfull<\/h2>\n
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Dolores and Mita grow up in rural Brazil, identical and inseparable. But Mita develops a mysterious illness that challenges the family. One day, Dolores wakes up to find her sister gone\u2014sent to a hospital in their father\u2019s native London. There is no Dolores without Mita. And now Mita is gone.<\/p>\n

When the family moves to Rio, Dolores\u2019 parents act as if Mita never existed. Lonely and grief-stricken, Dolores struggles to learn to read and write at the stodgy British School\u2014until she meets Andrea, a headstrong, streetwise girl from the dangerous part of town. Andrea shows Dolores a new side of Rio\u2014and how to survive it. As the dictatorship cracks down on dissenters, and people disappear, Dolores begins to wonder if her sister is dead, and her parents are lying. Determined to uncover the truth, Dolores is willing to do whatever it takes\u2014lie, gamble and steal\u2014to get her sister back.<\/p>\n

Liar\u2019s Dice<\/em>\u00a0captures the precarious intensity of coming of age in a volatile time\u2014when repression and silence are the fabric of everyday life\u2014and the cost of family secrets. Heartrending and tender, Juliet Faithfull\u2019s debut novel is a testament to the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.<\/p>\n

If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop<\/h2>\n
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Kim Choyeop became an instant literary sensation in Korea with her debut short story collection. Each of these bitesize speculative masterpieces represents a journey into the unknown, guided by a writer blessed with a boundless imagination.<\/p>\n

From alternative futures to distant alien planets, in the company of scientists, space explorers and ordinary citizens in extraordinary situations, Kim Choyeop revels in making the impossible seem not only possible but somehow inevitable.<\/p>\n

Each story focuses on an specific issue of discrimination against women or other marginalised groups, adding a mind-bending twist to hold a mirror to modern society and its everyday iniquities.<\/p>\n

Midnight, at the War by Devi S. Laskar<\/h2>\n
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Foreign correspondent Rita Das has left New York for the war-torn Middle East, a reassignment she asked for after learning she is pregnant but uncertain whether the father is her husband or her lover. As she strives to shed light on the fallouts of the war, Rita finds herself embroiled in her own conflicts with her interpreter and her news editor, her sources and her colleagues. She is unable to accept the loss of her mother and deal with her guilt for not being at her side when she died.<\/p>\n

Fiercely independent and ambitious (and, in her journalism, deeply humane), Rita is also in denial about her need for intimate human relationships. As she goes into the field to report on the war, she grapples with the physical and emotional tolls of her pregnant body and a turbulent region where the numbing repetition of war slides suddenly into horror. When her news editor delivers urgent orders for her to return to New York, Rita is faced with a choice about how she wants to live her life as a journalist and a soon-to-be mother.<\/p>\n

Set in the years immediately after 9\/11, and drawn from Devi Laskar\u2019s own experience as a government reporter in the 1990s and early aughts, Midnight, at the War is an exploration of love and grief, of moral ambiguity and forgiveness, of modern war and the wars we wage within ourselves.<\/p>\n

Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez<\/h2>\n
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SPRING, 2007<\/p>\n

At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She\u2019s in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother\u2019s beliefs, saving up for her wedding to a future doctor. But after Alicia ventures out one night in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she finds herself lured by the siren song of youth and possibility that the striving crowd of creatives holds, and moves in.<\/p>\n

No one embodies this milieu more than La Garza, a larger-than-life, up-and-coming fashion designer whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza\u2019s life, observed by Alicia from her apartment across the street, seems to hold the allure and fearlessness Alicia has never dared to imagine for herself.<\/p>\n

But when Alicia\u2019s wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza\u2019s precarious lives.<\/p>\n

Against the backdrop of a potentially life-changing presidential election and a looming once-in-a-generation fiscal crisis, Last Night in Brooklyn explores the dark compromise of the American Dream for people of color living, unknowingly, in the twilight of a cultural moment. It is a story about everything money can buy\u2015and the destruction of what it can\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n

Transcription by Ben Lerner<\/h2>\n
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The narrator of Ben Lerner\u2019s new novel has travelled to Providence, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor, and the father of his college friend, Max. But after the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas\u2019s house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.<\/p>\n

What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to each other, that store or obliterate the memories that make us who we are.<\/p>\n

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