THE MILKY WAY: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy, by Moiya McTier. (Grand Central, paper, $17.99.) After their father is executed by the oppressive Han government, two daughters of a Vietnamese lord raise an army of women to retake their hometown and free their people in this epic set during the Bronze Age.

(And Other Stories, paper, $15.95.) Quin’s experimental final novel, first published in 1972, offers a collage of styles as it tells the story of a man being chased across the country by his estranged lover and her new boyfriend.īRONZE DRUM, by Phong Nguyen. (Simon & Schuster, $30.) The longest-serving living American senator recounts his life in politics, from riding his tricycle into the governor’s office as a 6-year-old to his election as the first Democrat to represent Vermont in the Senate and his role in negotiating the custody case of Elián González with Cuba. THE ROAD TAKEN: A Memoir, by Patrick Leahy.

(Grove, $26.) Acampora’s third book follows a former photographer from New York City who is growing tired of the “fairy-tale quicksand” of her family life in sleepy suburban Connecticut when a young and ambitious environmentalist artist crashes into their town. (Little, Brown, $28.) Donoghue returns to historical fiction in this novel set during the early Middle Ages, in which a devout scholar-priest recruits two monks to join him on a pilgrimage to an island he’s envisioned in a dream, resulting in a journey that severely tests their understandings of faith and humanity.

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