A selection of summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

THE NEW EARTH, by Jess Row >> (Ecco, 592 pages, $22.) In the early aughts, the domestic life of the Wilcoxes, a Jewish family on the Upper West Side, was upended by a revelation and a tragic death. In 2018, Winter Wilcox demands that her father, mother and brother face one another at her wedding. The resulting dysfunction is a “richly imagined, reflexively neurotic and frequently quite dazzling” novel in which “the kids,” according to a New York Times reviewer, “are not all right.”

GLOSSY: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier, by Marisa Meltzer >> (Atria/One Signal, 320 pages, $18.99.) This edition of Meltzer’s bestselling deep dive into the popular makeup brand, from its start as the blog “Into the Gloss” to its $1 billion valuation in 2019, has a new epilogue. A Times reviewer found the book “dishy”: “I read it in a weekend.”

SHARK HEART: A Love Story, by Emily Habeck >> (Marysue Rucci Books, 432 pages, $18.99.) In a world where humans regularly mutate into animals, Lewis and Wren learn Lewis will soon transform into a great white shark. Edan Lepucki called this speculative novel “much shaggier than its easy-to-imagine elevator pitch.” Wren’s “loss feels as vivid and painful as any marital tragedy,” she wrote in her review.

TRAVELERS TO UNIMAGINABLE LANDS: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain, by Dasha Kiper >> (Random House, 288 pages, $19.) A psychologist who works with Alzheimer’s patients draws on her own experiences, the case studies of Oliver Sacks and world literature to take stock of the expectations and realities caregivers face while looking after loved ones with dementia disorders.

THE MILITIA HOUSE, by John Milas >> (Holt, 272 pages, $17.99.) One day in 2010, Corporal Loyette and his U.S. Marine unit load cargo on and off helicopters on a base in Afghanistan. When an abandoned Soviet barracks beckons the bored troops, the encounters they have inside produce “the stark admissions of a mind bruised by war and its terrifying secrets,” a Times reviewer wrote, “encapsulated here by a classic horror device: the haunted house.”

A MOST TOLERANT LITTLE TOWN: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation, by Rachel Louise Martin >> (Simon & Schuster, 384 pages, $19.99.) A historian relays — “with precision, lucidity and, most of all, a heart inured to false hope,” according to a Times reviewer — the violent fallout from an August 1956 attempt by 12 Black students to enroll at the all-white Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee.