New Book Releases: August 10, 2021

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

THE OPHELIA GIRLS, Jane Healey. A seventeen-year-old girl whose cancer is in remission moves to the grand house where her mother grew up — and survived a tragedy alongside several friends as they became obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings, Ophelia, and each other. “A lush, seductive portrait of desire,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

THE ETERNAL AUDIENCE OF ONE, Rémy Ngamije. In this coming of age novel that Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams calls “a delightful, witty and impeccably funny novel,” a Rwandan moves to Cape Town, South Africa for his final year of law school. Bookshop.

THE OTHER ME, Sarah Zachrich Jeng. An artist suddenly finds herself living an alternate life in her hometown, married to a childhood acquaintance who now runs a mysterious startup. Kirkus calls it a “fun, well-paced story.” Bookshop.

WAIT FOR IT, Jenn McKinlay. A Bostonian divorcée moves to Phoenix, Arizona for an exciting new job…