New Book Releases: November 11, 2020

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

THE ARREST, Jonathan Lethem. In a future in which most forms of technology — cars, computers, television — are defunct, a former screenwriter living in Maine on his sister’s farm finds his life further disturbed when an old colleague shows up in a nuclear-powered digger. “Defiantly pulpy,” writes USA Today. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

GLIMMER AS YOU CAN, Danielle Martin. In 1960s Brooklyn, tragedy threatens the survival of an underground women’s club. Bookshop.

THE SURPRISING POWER OF A GOOD DUMPLING, Wai Chim. A teenager’s life is turned upside down when her mother’s mental illness worsens. The New York Times calls it “heart-wrenching.” Bookshop.

LITTLE CRUELTIES, Liz Nugent. Conflict and competition between three famous and powerful Irish brothers ends with one of them dead. Bookshop.