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In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.

Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.

In “Meltdown,” Duncan Mavin describes the grand rise and ignominious fall of a financial behemoth.

In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia hoping to pick up the pieces after the sudden death of her husband.

Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks lead us to the great writer’s mind, then ask us to remain outside.

In Lisa Ko’s adventurous novel “Memory Piece,” youthful exploration takes a dark turn for an artist, an activist and a web developer.

“Menewood” continues Nicola Griffith’s epic portrayal of the abbess Hild of Whitby.

In “Mercury,” Amy Jo Burns explores the conflicting loyalties and many secrets of a roofing clan in small-town Pennsylvania.

A Mexican American family heads to Jalisco in their Winnebago and a “bruja” from Puerto Rico steps out of a cab in Brooklyn.

The new book by Jennifer Burns aims to bring fresh complexity to our understanding of the Nobel Prize-winning economist.