Cover art trend: Bare backs

A new trend in cover art?  These 5 books all came out in the last few months, even though they cover widely different topics, all five feature women's bare backs and necks as seen from behind.
  • Unruly Passions of Eugenie R by Carole DeSanti - A tale set in France's Second Empire period finds young Eugâenie left pregnant and penniless by a man she thought she loved before struggling to reclaim the daughter she is forced to give up.
  • All Woman and Springtime by Brandon Jones - Having grown up in a North Korean forced-labor camp, mathematical genius Gi and her friend Il-Sun escape to South Korea, only to be forced into the sex-worker industry there and in the United States.
  • In One Person by John Irving - A tale inspired by the U.S. AIDS epidemic in the 1980s follows the experiences of individuals torn by devastating losses and political upheavals whose perspectives on tolerance and love are also irrevocably shaped by awareness of what might have been.
  • I am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits - A novel spanning four decades, from pre-World War II Transylvania to contemporary New York, looks at the cause and effect of both belief and non-belief within the Jewish religion, in a tale that focuses on the relationship of two sisters within a Hasidicsect.
  • The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg - The mysterious drowning of a little girl threatens to tear apart the resort town of Fjallbacka, as Patrik Hedstrom's investigation begins to uncover dark secrets of past generations.

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