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Atrek, Inci. Holiday Country. Flatiron: Macmillan. Jan. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9781250889461. $28.99. Downloadable. COMING OF AGE

Burns, Amy Jo. Mercury. Celadon: Macmillan. Jan. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781250908568. $29. CD/downloadable. FAMILY LIFE

Burton, Tara Isabella. Here in Avalon. S. & S. Jan. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781982170097. $28.99. FAMILY LIFE

Frankel, Laurie. Family Family. Holt. Jan. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9781250236807. $28.99. Downloadable. FAMILY LIFE

McCauley, Stephen. You Only Call When You’re in Trouble. Holt. Jan. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781250296795. $27.99. Downloadable. FAMILY LIFE

Steel, Danielle. Upside Down. Delacorte. Jan. 2024. 256p. ISBN 9780593498378. $28.99. lrg. prnt. FAMILY LIFE

For California-based Ada, her mother’s family villa on the Turkish coast is just Holiday Country, yet she can’t help but wonder how her mother’s life might have turned out had she not left, especially when an intriguing man from her mother’s past shows up; from debuter Atrek (100,000-copy first printing). In Burns’s Mercury, following the acclaimed Shiner, teenage Marley West meets the Joseph brothers when she blows into a Pennsylvania river valley town and soon marries one while tending to them all; the discovery of a dead body in the church’s attic makes her wonder whether she should watch out for herself first (40,000-copy first printing). In Burton’s Here in Avalon, Rose is now steady on her feet after being raised by a heedless bohemian mother, while wild sister Cecilia returns to New York and immediately disappears into a mysterious cabaret troupe called the Avalon that travels by river; from the author of the multi-best-booked Social Creature. It’s all about Family Family in the New York Times best-selling Frankel’s latest; movie star India Allwood gets into boiling hot media water when she’s critical of her new film for purveying a limited view of adoption, but then she’s an adoptive mother herself who also gave up a baby as a teenager (100,000-copy first printing). In the nationally best-selling McCauley’s You Only Call When You’re in Trouble, an architect’s plans to build his masterpiece may be waylaid by the project's possibly vengeful client, the last woman he slept with before coming out; his sister, investing millions in a suspect wellness guru; and his beloved niece Cecily, trapped in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches (100,000-copy first printing). In Steel’s Upside Down, Academy Award–winning Ardith Law and her estranged daughter, Morgan, resentful that she always came second to her mother's career, rebuild their relationship when each has problems with an unconventional relationship.

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