No One You Know
by Michelle Richmond (Bantam Dell, $23).
Richmond’s second novel—which comes on the heels of last year’s riveting The Year of Fog—swirls around Ellie, who, after 20 years, is still searching for the truth behind her math-whiz sister Lila’s murder. Through her work as a coffee buyer, Ellie meets a man in a remote Nicaraguan village who helps her untangle her sense of self, and her family’s history, from the story someone else told her to believe.
Belong to Me
by Marisa de los Santos (William Morrow, $25).
Cornelia is challenged by her newly suburban existence—particularly her relationship with a perky neighbor, Piper, and the elusive Lake, a waitress with whom she forges an instant, if tenuous, bond over bowls of spaghetti puttanesca. De los Santos deftly threads Cornelia (and her hunky hubby, Teo) through the book, branching off to tell side stories that bring the community—and its inhabitants’ struggles with new love, illness and friendship—vividly to life. You won’t want to leave this story.
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