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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.

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You should read as many of them as possible.

So many novels about immigrant families are sprawling and populous but conventionally told.

Castillo reverses the polarity in her debut novel about Filipino-Americans in the Bay Area.

“America Is Not the Heart,” by Elaine Castillo (April 3, Viking)

The focus on blackness in this debut collection of stories may be the least interesting thing about it.

His Lone Star biography is important, timely, and most important, riveting.

As the kids say, itsa lot, but Schulman pulls it off beautifully.

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“Look Alive Out There,” by Sloane Crosley (FSG, April 3)

“The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath,” by Leslie Jamison (Little Brown, April 3)

Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

“The Only Story,” by Julian Barnes (Knopf, April 17)

“God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State,” by Lawrence Wright (Knopf, April 17)

“Theory of Bastards,” by Audrey Schulman (Europa, April 24)