July's Fiction Roundup: Novels Grapple with Inescapable Pasts

A roundup of July's new fiction titles explores how the past shapes identity, with sixteen novels from authors including Sarai Walker, Rowan Beaird, Valeria Luiselli, Nathaniel Rich, Emeline Atwood, Christian Kracht, María Elena Morán, Rachel Beanland, Abigail Rose-Marie, Imogen Crimp, Lizzie Buehler, Jack Friday, Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores, Robinne Lee, Araminta Hall, Laura Sims, Amy Chozick, and Marta Pérez-Carbonell. The books feature characters confronting cults, family secrets, migration, obsession, and grief. Notable works include 'Furious Violet' about a feminist poet's daughter; 'Tenderness' set at a wedding off Virginia's coast; 'Cloudtheif' involving a data center heist; 'Air' where a Swiss interior designer faces a solar storm in Norway; 'The Winds of Maracaibo' about a mother's fight in Venezuela; and 'White Rabbit' set in Sylvia Plath's former home. The collection was compiled by Caroline Reilly for Forbes.