New Book Releases: February 25, 2020

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

142 OSTRICHES, April Dávila. The young caretaker of an ostrich ranch must face the mysteries and traumas of her family’s legacy —while caring for 142 suddenly barren ostriches. Indiebound, Amazon.

ALICE ASKS THE BIG QUESTIONS, Laurent Gounelle, Sandra Smith (translator). A publicist and avowed atheist endeavors to help her friend, the priest of a struggling local church, attract more parisioners. Indiebound, Amazon.

APARTMENT, Teddy Wayne. Two Columbia MFA students, one privileged and one struggling, manage interrelational tensions brought about by their radically different class upbringings. Aggregated critical reviews, Indiebound, Amazon.

APEIROGON, Colum McCann. An Israeli and a Palestinian, both of whom lost their children in the conflict, use their grief as a message for peace. Aggregated critical reviews, Indiebound, Amazon.

FINNA, Nino Cipri. Two minimum-wage employees at a large Swedish furniture store must track an elderly customer who disappeared through a portal into…