New Book Releases: May 19, 2020

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

RODHAM, Curtis Sittenfeld. A reimagining of the life of Hillary Clinton, by the bestselling author of Prep and American Wife. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

THE TREE AND THE VINE, Dola de Jong, Kristen Gehrman (translator). Two women struggle with their feelings for each other as the Nazi army approaches Amsterdam. First published in 1955. Bookshop.

THE SILENCE, Susan Allott. A woman returns home to Australia after long-buried secrets about her father’s potential involvement in a young woman’s disappearance 30 years ago begin to surface. Bookshop.

THINGS YOU WOULD KNOW IF YOU GREW UP AROUND HERE, Nancy Wayson Dinan. A young woman with a magical sense of empathy journeys across an almost fantastical Texan landscape, looking for her friend who disappeared during the Memorial Day floods of 2015. I loved this book; it vividly depicts a stunning Texas teeming with life, memories, and ghosts. Read my mini-review here. Bookshop.