New Book Releases: February 23, 2021

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

IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, Véronique Tadjo. In this portrait of the Ebola epidemic, two unwitting young boys venture into the forest to hunt, killing and eating bats that will infect them, and their community, with the deadly virus. “As personal and humane as it is biblically grand… Brief and haunting, this makes for a timely testament to the destructive powers of pandemics,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

WHEN PARIS SLEPT, Ruth Druart. A Frenchman on the run from his past in WW2-era France, and a young woman on her way to Auschwitz, find their lives intersecting in profound and immense ways. Bookshop.

HONEY GIRL, Morgan Rogers. A hard-working, newly-minted astronomy PhD goes on a trip to Las Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman she doesn’t know. “Romance fans will appreciate the happily-ever-after of it all, with a rewardingly emotional conclusion, but this is a book with true crossover appeal as well,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Bookshop.