Paperback Picks
Time again for a round of Paperback Picks! This month: some impressive follow-up novels from bestselling authors, an Oscar-winning actor's poignant memoir, a truly hilarious political satire, and more — all freshly out in paperback. Happy reading!
"Finding Me: A Memoir" by Viola Davis (HarperCollins, $17.99). The great Davis, whose performances on screen have thrilled us for many years (among my favorites: "Doubt," "Fences," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," and "Widows"), here writes of her devastatingly difficult childhood and "gives a master class in triumphing over poverty and despair" wrote Publishers Weekly in a starred review. "Davis's grit and determination are moving, and her unflinching reckoning with the 'racism and misogyny' she faced in Hollywood makes her story of overcoming all the more effective."