New Book Releases: September 21, 2021

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

THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS, Ruth Ozeki. A child who, after his father’s death, begins to hear the voices of the objects surrounding him, retreats to a library, where the books speak in whispers and he make friends with other societal misfits. “Clever without being arch, metafictional without being arcane, dark without being nihilistic, The Book of Form and Emptiness is an exuberant delight,” writes the Boston Globe. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

BEWILDERMENT, Richard Powers. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory. A widowed astrobiologist hopes to treat his troubled son’s increasing mental health struggles with an experimental neurofeedback program. Bookshop.

UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR, TJ Klune. A recently dead man is given seven days to live out another lifetime before he’s scheduled to transcend to the afterlife. “Tenderness, wit, and skillful worldbuilding elevate this delightful tale,” writes Publisher’s…