A Peek at Peak Picks for March 2022

We’re adding nine new Peak Picks for March!

For nonfiction, Maud Newton reckons with her family history and America’s obsession with genealogy in Ancestor Trouble. Warsan Shire, the British Somali poet whose work featured prominently on Beyoncé’s Lemonade, releases her first full-length collection Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice in Her Head. Meghan O’Rourke investigates the rise in difficult to diagnose chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases, including long COVID, in The Invisible Kingdom. Eric Kim shares recipes and stories of the importance of food as a child of immigrants in Korean American. And Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe provides insight into her life as a Salish Coast punk in the intersectional autobiography Red Paint.

For fiction, Diana Abu-Jaber combines family drama with political intrigue set in Jordan in Fencing With the King. Bestselling science fiction author John Scalzi delivers a fun pandemic-era adventure set on a parallel Earth with giant creatures in The Kaiju Preservation Society. Rebecca Serle explores grief as a young woman embarks on a vacation alone after losing her mother in One Italian Summer. And Eloghosa Osunde debuts with a novel about the queer, poor and displaced residents of Lagos, Nigeria in the magical realist Vagabonds!​

~posted by Frank