New Book Releases: April 27, 2021

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

MEET ME IN ANOTHER LIFE, Catriona Silvey. Two strangers fall in love, and though their lives are cut short only a few days later in a tragic accident, they meet again and again in different lives, bodies, and scenarios, and are eventually forced to discover the truth of their connection before they die one final time. “A character-driven set of stories dotted with uncanny glimpses of different worlds, all of which come together and crescendo into revelations that will leave the reader reeling,” writes Booklist. Bookshop.

A SUNDAY IN VILLE D-’AVRAY, Dominique Barbéris, John Cullen (translator). At a home reminiscent of their childhood, two sisters find their relationship threatened when one of them discloses an encounter she had with a strange man. Bookshop.

FOLKLORN, Angela Mi Young Hur. A particle physicist whose female family members are historically cursed returns home after tragedy strikes, unraveling her mother’s dark stories of magic, hunger…