INDIE BOOKSELLER SPOTLIGHT

New releases at City Books

BY AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

Indie Bookseller

SPOTLIGHT is a regular column listing new releases at Pittsburgh book shops. Support local businesses and find your next favorite read.

City Books

908 Galveston Ave., North Side. citybookspgh.com

Pieces of Me

by Kate McLaughlin

(Macmillan)

An 18-year-old woman struggles with dissociative identity disorder in this young adult novel that Macmillan calls “raw, intimate, and surprisingly hopeful.”

The Haunting of Alejandra

by V. Castro

(Penguin

Random House)

V. Castro explores the Mexican legend of La Llorona in what Paste magazine cites as one of the most anticipated horror novels of 2023.

The Do-Over

by Suzanne Park (HarperCollins)

Have a laugh with this romantic comedy about a Korean-American woman who learns that she never actually finished college and must make up the credits.

Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex

edited by Matilda Bickers, peech breshears, and Janis Luna (PM Press)

Sex workers from all over the globe contribute to this collection of first-person essays, interviews, poetry, art, and photographs, all in an effort to humanize those behind the world’s so-called oldest profession.

Symphony of Secrets

by Brendan Slocumb (Penguin Random House)

A professor discovers a cover-up involving a celebrated composer and a Black Jazz Age prodigy in this work from a classical musician-turned-author. •