While I’m stuck at the Democratic Convention and its large number of speakers, there are still new books to discover later. Here are some of this week’s new fiction releases. As always, links are to The Literate Lizard, the online bookstore of nonfiction expert Debtorsprison of Readers and Book Lovers, and blurbs are from the publishers.

Black butterflies by Priscilla Morris
A timeless story of strife and hope set during the Balkan conflict in the early 1990s – a poignant debut novel about a woman who confronts the war on her doorstep with courage, ferocity and an unshakable belief in the power of art.

The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki
A translation of the Japanese bestseller and inspired by the myth of cats who do favors to those who care for them, this charming and enchanting novel reminds us that it is never too late to follow our stars.

Wild Failure: Stories by Zoe Whittall
In Wild Failure, characters experience feelings of shame, desire, attachment, and separation as they navigate poor choices, unusual situations, and strained relationships.

There are rivers in heaven by Elif Shafak
From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The island of missing treesan enchanting new story about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water.

Interpretations of love by Jane Campbell
A profound debut novel exploring complicated love, secrets, and familial misunderstandings, from the acclaimed octogenarian author of the “groundbreaking” (Oprah Daily) collection Cat brushes.

The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up in a community of indigenous women on a volcano, is summoned to the capital, where she is considered the oracle of an aspiring dictator. There she meets Consuelo, the sister she never knew, who was stolen from her home before Graciela was born. The two spend years under the cruel regime of El Gran Pendejo, unwittingly aiding his reign of terror until the community they come from is struck by genocide. Both believing the other to be dead, they flee, fleeing across the world and reinventing themselves until fate finally brings them back together in the most unlikely way.

Sensitive anatomy by Andrés Neuman
Sensitive Anatomy’s thirty short chapters are a tribute to the body in all its glory, from the most striking to the less appreciated areas. This is a poetic, political and hedonistic journey through the matter that makes us who we are. A book that questions how we see ourselves, how we should see and what beauty really is. It playfully takes a stand against Photoshop culture, against oppressive images, against all those edits and deletions that ultimately exclude the vast majority of real people.

The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones
Set in the early 1950s, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee Gayl Jones’ latest novel features witty but confusing Army veteran Buddy Ray Guy, who embodies the plight of black soldiers returning, albeit not in glorious shape, to their Jim Crow communities.

Buddy is a cook and tractor mechanic, known to his army buddies as Budweiser because he’s a smart guy. But beneath the surface, he’s a true self-taught intellectual and a classic seeker: searching for religion, searching for meaning, searching for love.