7 Books to Watch for in June 2010

Try to Remember

By Iris Gomez
368 pages; Grand Central

Gabriela, the smart and engaging teenage immigrant at the center of Iris Gomez's Try to Remember, faces more than the usual coming-of-age problems. In this captivating debut novel, she has to deal with an increasingly erratic father, who, as the book begins, enlists the 13-year-old to type yet another stack of the alarmingly disjointed missives he's been sending out to potential employers...Read more