What to read this week: New books by Veronica Chambers, Mitchell S. Jackson and Etaf Rum
!["Queen Bey," edited by Veronica Chambers (St. Martin's, March 2019)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.newsday.com%2Fimage-service%2Fversion%2Fc%3AMDBlNGE3NTEtODhhYS00%3AODc3MmNk%2Fbknew190310_photos.jpg%3Ff%3DLandscape%2B16%253A9%26w%3D770%26q%3D1&w=1920&q=80)
"Queen Bey," edited by Veronica Chambers (St. Martin's, March 2019) Credit: St. Martin’s Press
QUEEN BEY: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, edited by Veronica Chambers. Attention Beyhive: This collection of essays looks at the Beyoncé phenomenon from many different angles, including music, fashion, politics, feminism, celebrity, business and more. Among the contributors: Lena Waithe, Melissa Harris-Perry and Michael Eric Dyson. (St. Martin’s, $27.99)
SURVIVAL MATH: Notes on an All-American Family, by Mitchell S. Jackson. “Who are we? What have we learned? What have we endured? How do we proceed?” These are the questions asked by an African-American writer reflecting on his family history and upbringing in Portland, Oregon, in the 1980s and ‘90s. (Scribner, $26)
A WOMAN IS NO MAN, by Etaf Rum. This semi-autobiographical debut novel is the story of a Palestinian-American family in Brooklyn. Deya, a young woman being raised by her grandparents, hopes to forge a path for herself that does not involve a traditional arranged marriage straight out of high school. Rum reads at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn on March 12. (Harper, $26.99)