New Book Releases: April 6, 2021

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

PARADISE, NEVADA, Dario Diofebi. Disparate characters converge in Las Vegas in the lead-up to a bombing at a luxury resort and casino. The Los Angeles Times says Diofebi “recalls David Foster Wallace… Trick by trick and hand after hand, Diofebi proves a gifted young maximalist.” Bookshop.

FIRST, BECOME ASHES, K.M. Szpara. Members of an abusive cult must venture back out into the world they fear after their leader is arrested. “Szpara mixes trauma and magic to mesmerizing results,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

PEACES, Helen Oyeyemi. A young couple and their pet mongoose take a long journey on a bizarre train, where they seem to be the only passengers. Vulture calls it “a deeply, intoxicatingly romantic novel interrupted by occasional scenes of Benny Hill farce.” Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

THE WIDOW QUEEN, Elzbieta Cherezinska. Maya Zakrzewska-Pim (Translator). April 6. An epic novel about Świętosława of…