Rytual (Chloe Elisabeth Wilson, Penguin)

In her unsettling and sharply constructed debut, Rytual, Chloe Elisabeth Wilson dissects the seductive promise of transformation through beauty, rituals and belief systems. Marnie Sellick once dreamed of writing screenplays. Now, she’s adrift, barely holding it together at her job at an inner-city Melbourne spin studio, grieving her mother, and...