Newly Published, from a Suburban Search to a Seoul Flower Shop

MESSY ROOTS: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American, by Laura Gao. (Balzer + Bray, material, $22.99; paper, $14.99.) The author-illustrator Gao traces her childhood transfer from Wuhan, China, to Coppell, Texas, and describes her adolescence in the US. This humorous debut graphic memoir grapples with queerness, anti-Asian racism and self-discovery as a diaspora child.

KEEPING TWO, by Jordan Crane. (Fantagraphics, $29.99.) When his girlfriend is late coming dwelling from operating errands, a person is struck by his worry of shedding her. He units out to seek out her, setting off an elaborate and emotionally charged chain of occasions in Crane’s superbly rendered nighttime shadows of suburbia.

HAKIM’S ODYSSEY: Guide 2: From Turkey to Greece, by Fabien Toulmé. Translated by Hannah Chute. (Graphic Mundi, $29.95.) On this second quantity of Toulmé’s gut-wrenching collection, Hakim and his son are separated from their household in Istanbul and are pressured to embark on a deadly journey towards France by boat.

TWO HEADS: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work With Different Brains, by Uta Frith, Chris Frith and Alex Frith. Illustrated by Daniel Locke. (Scribner, $30.) Two neuroscientists, a kids’s e book writer and a graphic novelist staff as much as contemplate the psychological advantages of collaboration.

SISTERS OF MOKAMA: The Pioneering Ladies Who Introduced Hope and Therapeutic to India, by Jyoti Thottam. (Viking, $28.) A New York Instances editor attracts upon 20 years’ value of analysis on this account of a small-town hospital in India that was established in 1947 by six Kentucky nuns and run virtually solely by ladies.

VIOLETS, by Kyung-sook Shin. Translated by Anton Hur. (Feminist Press, paper, $15.95.) A younger and remoted Korean girl is determined to jump-start her life in Nineteen Nineties Seoul when she encounters {a magazine} photographer on the flower store the place she works.

AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, by Masatsugu Ono. Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. (Two Strains, paper, $16.95.) A father and son reside on the fringe of a whispering forest in an unnamed nation, the place letters by no means arrive however mysterious guests do. As son and father take care of this “peculiar abyss of time and house,” they unravel themes of struggle, violence and mercy.

THE AGE OF THE STRONGMAN: How the Cult of the Chief Threatens Democracy Across the World, by Gideon Rachman. (Different Press, $27.99.) A journalist outlines the shared ways of the authoritarian “playbook” on this wide-ranging evaluation of world leaders from Vladimir Putin of Russia to Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil.