Tuesday New Release Day: Starring O’Farrell, Sexton, Homes, and MOre

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Maggie O’Farrell, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A.M. Homes, and more—that are publishing this week.

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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Here’s what  about : “This lush, provocative historical from National Book Critics Circle Award winner O’Farrell () follows a young woman who is married off at 15 amid the complex world of 16th-century Italian city-states. O’Farrell bases her heroine, Lucrezia de’ Medici, on a real-life figure depicted in poem ‘My Last Duchess,’ who was murdered by her husband. When the reader first meets Lucrezia, she’s been married for not quite a year and faces mortal danger in what O’Farrell describes as a ‘wild and lonely place.’ The narrative moves back and forth from the nearly deserted fortress where Lucrezia plays a game of cat and mouse with the duke won’t be disappointed by this formidable outing.”