Tom Perrotta, Jordan Harper, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more: 20 new books out today!

We’re rounding out the month with a final dose of great literature: stupendous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry all abound. Tom Perrotta’s new novel, Ghost Town, is out today, alongside Emma Copley Eisenberg’s collection of stories, Fat Swim, and Emma Parry’s historical novel Mrs. Benedict Arnold. In nonfiction, we have the resounding biography of beauty-and-business-mogul Mary Kay, a compiled collection of essays about familial estrangement, and Bob Farese’s ode to the medium of water. Happy reading, and happy Tuesday! * Tom Perrotta, Ghost Town (Scribner) “As pure and clean as a wish, or a prayer.” –Emma Straub Jordan Harper, A Violent Masterpiece (Mulholland) “Conjure[s] an intoxicating atmosphere of glamor and decay, while Harper’s distinct characters elicit deep emotional investment.” –Publishers Weekly Mary Lisa Gavenas, Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay (Viking) “A remarkable depiction of a transformational businesswoman.” –Publishers Weekly Emma Copley Eisenberg, Fat Swim (Hogarth) “A lush, radical meditation on the body’s pleasure and potential.” –Carmen Maria Machado Suzy Hansen, From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan (FSG) “A dizzying tour de force: the simultaneously cosmic and microscopic record of a transformative decade in Istanbul, Turkey, and the world.” –Elif Batuman Jimin Han, Dreamt I Found You (Little Brown) “A beautifully written modern-day fairytale that interrogates rigid social hierarchies while illuminating the fierce, sustaining power of family connections.” –Angie Kim Ed. by Jenny Bartoy, No Contact: Writers on Estrangement (Catapult) “A landmark work around a theme so prominent—and yet so thoroughly ignored—in modern life.” –Ocean Vuong Jeyamohan, trans. by Suchitra Ramachandran, The Abyss (Transit Books) “An astonishing work … I have read nothing like it in years.” –The Wall Street Journal Elisa Tamarkin, Done in a Day: Telex From the Fall of Saigon (University of Chicago Press) “The book is like lightning, capturing the madness of that war’s many years into its final few hours.” –Greg Grandin Emma Parry, Mrs. Benedict Arnold (Zando) “A lush, nuanced exploration of how one woman can tip the scales of history.” –Emma Brodie Laura B. McGrath, Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction (Princeton University Press) “An enlightening study of how agents have shaped the American literary landscape.” –Publishers Weekly Ananda Devi, trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman, All Flesh (FSG) “An elegant, feverish work of psychological literary horror.” –Lucy Rose Steven J. Ross, The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy (Bloomsbury) “Richly researched, impressively annotated, burningly bright.” –Kirkus Bob Farese, Jr., A Perfect Medium (MW Editions) “Abstract, lyrical photographs paired with sage, poetic texts call attention to our inextricable relationship to water.” –From the publisher Bruce Nichols, The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World (Avid Reader Press) “Vivid portrait of the writers who launched American literature.” –Kirkus Anna Badkhen, To See Beyond: Essays (Bellevue Literary Press) “Badkhen wields language like a wide-eyed, percussive magician.” –Kiese Laymon Karen Tei Yamashita, Questions 27 & 28 (Graywolf) “A provocative symphony.” –Los Angeles Times Madeline Vosch, Undead: A Memoir of My Suicide (Beacon Press) “This story is a hand stretched out, an invitation to belonging,…

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