New Book Releases: January 12, 2021

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

DETRANSITION, BABY, Torrey Peters. When a trans woman’s partner detransitions, she finds her family forever changed. “Smart, funny, and bighearted,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Read an excerpt on Esquire. Bookshop.

WHAT COULD BE SAVED, Liese O’Halloran Schwarz. When she receives a mysterious call from a man claiming to be her long-lost brother, a woman flies to Bangkok to uncover her family’s secrets when they lived in Thailand in the 1970s. Bookshop.

THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING, Jamie Harrison. An editor and mother struggling with memory problems prepares for a large family reunion while coping with the suspicious disappearance of her children’s’ babysitter. “The kind of book that invites a second reading,” writes Kirkus in a starred review. Bookshop.

THE LOST MANUSCRIPT, Cathy Bonidan. After discovering a 30-year-old manuscript in a hotel bedside table, a woman tracks down the two authors who worked on the book decades ago. Bookshop.