NOTHING SPECIAL, by Nicole Flattery (Bloomsbury, $32.99)
It’s the mid-1960s, and discontented teenager Mae is searching for her place in the world. Frustrated by her “boring and disgusting” schoolmates and constantly disappointed by her alcoholic mother, she seeks distraction in New York’s elite department stores, searching for adventure on the escalators in Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, indulging in