New Book Releases: September 1, 2020

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

EVENING, Nessa Rapoport. Stories and long-hidden secrets about a family unfold as a woman sits shiva for her recently-estranged late sister. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly calls it a “smart, darkly funny novel.” Bookshop.

FABLE, Adrienne Young. When her mother drowns and her powerful trader father abandons her, a seventeen-year-old is forced to fight for survival before embarking on a perilous journey to track down her father and claim her rightful place beside him. From the author of the beloved YA fantasy Sky In The Deep. Bookshop.

FIFTY WORDS FOR RAIN, Asha Lemmie. Raised by her grandparents, the daughter of a married Japanese aristocrat and an African American GI endures abuse and humiliation before forming an unlikely alliance with her older half brother that changes everything. “Lemmie’s heartbreaking story of familial obligations packs an emotional wallop,” writes Publisher’s Weekly. Bookshop.

THREE SINGLE WIVES, Gina LaManna. When the topic of a philandering husband comes up at a book club…