For more titles by Big Red authors, peruse our previous round-ups<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you published a book you’d like to submit? Scroll down for details!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jimin Han \u201988<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The narrator of Han\u2019s novel<\/a> is a recently deceased 105-year-old woman named Hak Jeonga, who unspools the tale from the afterlife. \u201cJeonga\u2019s narration is sharp and witty and a touch sly,\u201d says the New York Times<\/em>, \u201cas she describes her present, disembodied state\u2014the in-between, purgatory-like space her consciousness now occupies\u2014as well as the events that led to her death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plot follows Jeonga\u2019s memories of family drama and immigration from South Korea to the U.S., including her long-ago decision to send a relative abroad to conceal an out-of-wedlock birth.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhether dead or alive, Jeonga is a larger-than-life character, stubborn, judgmental, always active,\u201d says a review in the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune<\/em>. \u201cEven when trying to materialize through the video screen on the back seat of a plane, her ghost cannot resist commenting on the tackiness of economy class: \u2018Unlike the business-class seats that my sisters occupied, the accommodations here were cheap. Itchy polyester in a tweed cross-hatch of royal blue, yellow, and lime green.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The novel\u2014Han\u2019s second<\/a>\u2014landed on several seasonal \u201cmust read\u201d lists including in the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, Goodreads, Apple Books, and the L.A. Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leah Puidokas Quiroga \u201994<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Arts & Sciences alum, Quiroga studied at the Culinary Institute of America and was a chef at Berkeley\u2019s famed Chez Panisse. Her co-authored volume<\/a> won the 2023 Best Cookbook Award (in the children, youth, and family category) from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Intended for readers aged from the mid-teens to mid-twenties, it offers ambitious but doable recipes\u2014from garlicky kale crostini to \u201cbricked chicken\u201d to mochi ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div> \u201cInexperienced cooks are often faced with choosing between beginner books teaching mundane recipes or standard cookbooks that are more enticing but also overwhelming for newcomers,\u201d says Library Journal<\/em>. \u201cInto the mix comes this book written by chefs who are sisters<\/a>, based on the food they learned to cook in their mother\u2019s multicultural kitchen, with recipes designed to teach and inspire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book also garnered praise from NPR, which raved: \u201cThese recipes attend to texture and flavor with chef-like finesse and eclecticism (Bulgogi meatballs! Handmade arepas! Biscuit-topped chicken pot pie!) while also including painstaking process photos and taking no skills or steps for granted. It\u2019s a delicate balance to pull off cringe-free. This one\u2019s well worth gifting to your 20-something, along with their first good knife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sung J. Woo \u201994<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Woo\u2019s second mystery novel<\/a> continues his series, begun with 2020\u2019s Skin Deep<\/em>, featuring Korean-American private eye Siobhan O\u2019Brien. This time, O\u2019Brien is hired by an elderly billionaire\u2014a genius in A.I. who lives on a private island with his toxic family\u2014who claims that one of his children is an impostor. Is her client losing his grip on reality\u2014or could he actually be right? And might O\u2019Brien have been lured to the island under false pretenses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Woo is the author<\/a> of four novels including Everything Asian<\/em> (2009), which won the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Award.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n An MFA grad of NYU, he has published widely, including in the New York Times<\/em> (in the \u201cModern Love<\/a>\u201d section, magazine, and elsewhere) and McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eric Elbogen \u201992<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Arts & Sciences alum<\/a> is on the behavioral sciences faculty at Duke\u2019s medical school and serves as a psychologist at the Veterans Administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n His nonfiction book<\/a>, from NYU Press, is subtitled Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accessible to both academic and general audiences, it explores the relationship between violent acts and mental disorders\u2014a connection frequently cited in the media in the wake of a horrific crime, but in many cases without substantiation. <\/p>\n<\/div> And as Elbogen and his co-author argue, that can have dangerous repercussions, by both stigmatizing people with mental illness and ignoring other causes of crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThink of each act of violence like a jigsaw puzzle made up of a number of different pieces,\u201d they write. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen violence occurs, people frequently think the puzzle is formed by one big piece: mental illness. \u2026 The reality is that mental illness is most often not a piece of the puzzle, and when it is, it is a small one. When present, mental illness often links with other puzzle pieces, such as alcohol abuse or poverty. The danger of exaggerating the role of mental illness is that it downplays the role of other important puzzle pieces, such as hate, anger, and past antisocial behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kate St. Vincent Vogl \u201987<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vogl\u2019s latest, subtitled Making Calls in a Man\u2019s World<\/em>, is a co-authored memoir<\/a> of Shannon Eastin, who served as an NFL referee during a 2012 labor dispute that locked out the regular staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis made her the first woman to officiate an NFL game, and she faced sexual harassment and misogyny in the sport,\u201d observes a review in Library Journal<\/em>. \u201cAll this she recounts in her highly personal memoir, told in a raw, first-person narrative … This recommended story is one that needs to be told. It will inspire many people, especially girls and women, to overcome obstacles to their success.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vogl previously published<\/a> the books Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers<\/em> and Iron Horse Cowgirls: Louise Scherbyn and the Women Motorcyclists of the 1930s and 1940s<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sheryl Haft \u201986<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Haft\u2019s picture book<\/a> is aimed at kids aged four to eight, especially those with an interest in STEM-related activities. It stars a girl (and budding engineer) named Mazie McGear, who uses her imagination to create gizmos that solve everyday problems\u2014from feeding the dog to helping her mom carry boxes to waking up a sleepy brother. Says Publishers Weekly<\/em>: \u201cPulsing with friendly energy, this STEM-starter conveys the sense that engineering is something any child can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Human Ecology alum<\/a> previously published three children\u2019s books including I Love You, Blankie<\/em> and Goodnight Bubbala<\/em>. She\u2019s also the founder of the kids\u2019 STEM program Let\u2019s Engineer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHaft builds upon each Mazie-engineered success with one culminating project that incorporates each of the devices used in Mazie\u2019s previous inventions,\u201d says the New York Journal of Books<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s all so sweet, smart, satisfying, and surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mary Crawford 1904, MD 1907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In October 1914\u2014during an era when women comprised less than 5% of U.S. medical doctors\u2014Crawford left her private surgical practice in Brooklyn to work in a hospital near Paris just a few months after World War I broke out, becoming one of the first female MDs to treat its troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her memoir<\/a> is subtitled The Diary and Letters of a Woman Doctor in the American Ambulance Hospital in France, 1914\u20131915<\/em>. It offers a contemporaneous account of one of history\u2019s bloodiest conflicts through Crawford\u2019s journal entries and correspondence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n It partly unfolds as daily narrations of her life on the Western Front, but it\u2019s also a multilayered portrait of its author: a woman<\/a> resolved to find her purpose and see the world, while also struggling to juggle her roles as a daughter, doctor, and romantic partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m \u2026 so torn between the two sides of the Atlantic,\u201d she wrote to her future husband. \u201cThe work I love, and the people I love. I\u2019m too much of a woman not to choose the people, and I\u2019m too much of a man not to mourn bitterly the work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/the-apology-A.jpg\")
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