New Book Releases: June 15, 2021

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

THE GODMOTHERS, Camille Aubray. Four best friends must contend with their husbands’ drafts into WWII and the encroaching power of the Italian American mob. “ Addictive and tense… This credibly flips the script on male-dominated Mafia stories,” says Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

HAIRPIN BRIDGE, Taylor Adams. A woman doubts a state trooper’s suspicious official report that her sister died by suicide by jumping off a bridge. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly calls it a “dazzling thriller… Adams is a writer to watch.” Bookshop.

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Joshua Henkin. A woman who married her young Shakespeare professor must cope years later when his cognitive health begins to decline. “Caring for a spouse with Alzheimers is an ever more common heartbreak, illuminated by this tender portrait of a marriage,” writes Kirkus. Bookshop.

THE SWEETNESS OF WATER, Nathan Harris. In the wake of the civil war, two freedmen try to find their…