New Book Releases: February 1, 2022

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

VLADIMIR, Julia May Jonas. An English professor falls in love with a young, married novelist just as her own husband is being investigated for improper relationships with young students. “Vladimir goes into such outrageous territory that my jaw literally dropped at moments while I was reading it,”writes the Boston Globe. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

WHAT THE FIREFLIES KNEW, Kai Harris. A coming-of-age novel about an eleven-year-old girl after her father dies of an overdose and she and her remaining family go live with her grandmother in Lansing. Bookshop.

REDWOOD AND WILDFIRE, Andrea Hairston. At the turn of the 20th century, two performers and hoodoo conjurors go on an adventure from Georgia to Chicago. Publisher’s Weekly calls it a “a spectacular feat” in a starred review. Bookshop.

RAMÓN AND JULIETA, Alana Quintana Albertson. The son of a fast food empire and a taqueria celebrity chef fall in love, despite…