SIX-PACK

Time travels, sexual travails, and more new fiction

THE LOST AMERICANS

In VF contributing editor Christopher Bollen's sharp new literary thriller, a woman searches for answers in the wake of her brother's mysterious death in Cairo. (Harper)

BIRNAM WOOD

A rogue gardening collective in New Zealand, led by a "self-mythologising" rebel, clashes with an American billionaire over land use in Eleanor Cotton's thoughtful, personality-rich page-turner. (FSG)

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED

Following her estranged stepmother's death in Appalachia, a woman returns home to confront old memories and new revelations in Idra Novey's double character study. (Viking)

FLUX

Jinwoo Chong's engrossing debut braids three narratives— a boy in mourning, a whistleblower, and a laid-off media employee—to unspool a mystery examining pop culture and time. (Melville House)

WHAT HAPPENED TO RUTHY RAMIREZ

In Claire Jimenez's assured debut novel, a trio of Staten Island CLAIRE JIMENEZ women glimpse the sister and daughter they lost years earlier and go out looking for her. (Grand Central)

BIG SWISS

Plumbing trauma and desire, Jen Beagin's funny, poignant novel sees a transcriber for a Hudson Valley sex and relationship coach fall entranced by an orgasmdeficient client. (Scribner)

KEZIAH WEIR