New in Paperback: ‘Women’s Work’ and ‘What You Have Heard Is True’

WOMEN’S WORK: A Personal Reckoning With Labor, Motherhood, and Privilege, by Megan K. Stack. (Anchor, 336 pp. , $16.

95. ) Stack, a former international correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, explores her decision to employ Chinese and Indian women to care for her children, traveling to visit the women in their difficult home environments. “Stack is unflinching in her account,” our reviewer, Lauren Hilgers, wrote. WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, by Carolyn Forché.

(Penguin, 390 pp. , $18. ) Forché tells the story of her life-changing journey as a young poet to El Salvador, when an enigmatic Salvadoran activist named Leonel Gómez invited her to visit his country and observe its tilt toward civil war. In these pages, Francisco Goldman called the book “riveting” and “magnificent.

” THE VOLUNTEER, by Salvatore Scibona. (Penguin, 419 pp. , $18.

“) Scibona’s second novel opens with a small boy abandoned at an international airport in Hamburg.”

It fans out to become a family saga that encompasses the Vietnam War and generations of American men adrift in Iowa, New York and New Mexico. Our reviewer, Hermione Hoby, wrote that “Scibona has built a masterpiece. ” PARKLAND: Birth of a Movement, by Dave Cullen. (Harper, 385 pp.

, $17. 99. ) Cullen, the author of “Columbine,” follows the traumatized students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. , as they become media-savvy gun control activists in the wake of the 2018 mass shooting at their school.

“Partly thanks to Cullen, the rules of covering shootings have shifted,” Hanna Rosin wrote in these pages. THE RIVER, by Peter Heller. (Vintage Contemporaries, 253 pp. , $16.