“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, Jan. 30, 2024) and “The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster” by John O’Connor (Sourcebooks, Feb. 6, 2024).

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The Shutouts is set in the same world as Gabrielle Korn’s first novel, 2023’s Yours For The Taking, and though the two books share some characters, it’s not a direct sequel. Instead, The Shutouts continues to explore the fallout of the environmental disaster that made it unsafe to be outside in Yours For The Taking.