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HOMESICK, by Roshi Fernando (Knopf, $24.95)

A collection of linked stories, from a debut author, about Sri Lankan immigrants making their lives in London. For fans of Zadie Smith and Jhumpa Lahiri.

FIRE IN THE BELLY, by Cynthia Carr (Bloomsbury, $35)

Provocative gay artist David Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992. Carr's biography vividly depicts a downtown New York art scene that is no more.

TIGERS IN RED WEATHER, by Liza Klaussmann (Little, Brown, $25.99)

This first novel, by the great-great-great-granddaughter of Herman Melville, traces the impact of a murder on one Martha's Vineyard family in the late 1950s.