Paperbacks new and noteworthy

■ “Wayward,” by Dana Spiotta. (Vintage, 336 pp., $17.) Spiotta’s fifth novel, about female aging in contemporary America, follows a woman who reckons with the trappings of wealth and comfort after spontaneously buying a home in Syracuse, New York, and divorcing her husband. Reviewer Joanna Rakoff called the book a “virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.”

■ “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America,” by Juan Gonzalez. (Penguin, 560 pp., $20.) Originally published in 2000, this updated edition of Gonzalez’s ambitious and heavily researched account provides historical context to Latin American immigration and culture in the United States. The New York Times called it a “serious, significant contribution” to understanding Latino life in this country.

■ “The Eternal Audience of One,” by Rémy Ngamije. (Scout Press/Gallery, 400 pp., $17.99.) This debut novel follows Séraphin, the witty teenage son of Rwandan exiles in Namibia, as he navigates puberty and, much later, the sexual and racial politics of a new generation in South Africa while attending law school. Reviewer Anderson Tepper wrote that Ngamije’s book is one “of youthful anxiety and dreams — written at a lively, chatty pace.”

■ “Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else,” by Jordan Ellenberg. (Penguin, 480 pp., $18.) Reviewer Matt Parker wrote that Ellenberg employs a “deliberately wide” definition to make a compelling case that geometry is built into the way we think about space and motion, touching on everything from mosquitoes to Sanskrit poetry.