Six of the year's buzziest authors discuss bringing their books into the world during cultural upheaval

Like so many things, the book world has been rocked by the aftershocks of the global pandemic.

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Bettyby Tiffany McDaniel

This family saga might be the saddest novel you’ll read all year.

It’s a novel, but strongly based on McDaniel’s mother (the title character).

Learn the family’s origin story in thisexcerpt.Bettyhits shelves Aug. 18.

“I began to think of my life as existing on fault lines,” she says.

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The memoir will be released on Jan. 12, 2021.

But in her memoir, she explores something much more interior.

“It tracks a kind of fall-off-the-cliff depression from grief and a bounce back.”