Edna Bonhomme — Tending to Our Wounds

A historian of science reads six cities — Miami, New York, Port-au-Prince, Harlem, Cairo, Berlin — as a record of how each one handled Black bodies, and refuses to let the memoir stay personal. Robin D. G. Kelley's blurb calls the bill past due. Independent press, Berlin-based Haitian-American author, no festival machine behind it — the room hasn't fully arrived yet, but the reviews are already the right reviews. Published July 21 by Haymarket.