42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021

Told across four decades and two continents, Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah is a beautifully intricate family drama about a young woman torn between her parents and two worlds. Shortly after Muneer and Saeedah settle into their lives in America, the couple divorce, leading Muneer to make a life-altering choice when she flees to Saudi Arabia with her daughter, Hanadi. By the time Hanadi discovers what her mother did, she's faced with the impossible question of how she can exist between two continents and two parents with such different ideas about what her future should look like.

Out Jan. 26