‘Beautiful Country,’ by Qian Julie WangAs a young child, the author fled China for New York, where she and her parents were undocumented for years. Doubleday, Sept. 7 | Read our review‘Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11,’ by Joseph PfeiferPfeifer, a New York Fire Department battalion chief on the scene on 9/11, shares some of the horror — and the valor — he witnessed. (His brother, also a New York City firefighter, died during a rescue mission in one of the towers.) But the book is also a personal exploration; Pfeifer examines his closest relationships, his past as a seminarian and his calling to the Fire Department. She puts it simply: “I do not want to forget, though sometimes memory appears to be an enemy bringing only pain.”Norton, Sept. 7

Source: New York Times September 16, 2021 15:19 UTC