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Deal of the Week
Harper Nets New NF by Morgan Jerkins
Adenike Olanrewaju at Harper landed North American rights, in an exclusive submission, to Skin upon Skin: Masks as a Mirror of Race by Morgan Jerkins from Sharon Pelletier at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. The book, per the agency, “explores the interplay between masks and race in American cultural history, from pre-Revolution beauty customs to the rise of the KKK, from minstrelsy and horror villains to political movements and state-sanctioned violence.” A fall 2028 release is planned.
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More New Book Deals of Note
Among this week’s offerings are Tyler McCall’s debut novel People Like You, an enemies-to-lovers summer romance set in the Hamptons; The End of the Arab of the Future: A Youth in the Middle East, the final installment in Riad Sattouf’s graphic memoir series about growing up half-French and half-Syrian; and Daniel G. Miller’s The Neighborhood Experiment, a thriller centered on a billionaire’s desert “wellness utopia.”
The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include Jesmeen Kaur Deo’s untitled contemporary YA novel in which Chandani Sharma, whose academic future depends on her keeping a scandal under wraps, races to stop a rival student from exposing the corruption—even as they begin to fall for one another; Neckbone by CG Drews, a psychological YA horror in which a teen’s summer job cleaning mansions takes a dark turn when he realizes the rich dysfunctional family he works for are vampiric monsters—and they’re hellbent on making him one, too; and A Light in the Dark, a middle grade historical fiction novel spanning decades by Erin Soderberg Downing, where three kids connected by a Great Lakes shipwreck and lighthouse each face their own journey for survival.

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