A Peek at Peak Picks for June 2022

Here’s a sneak peek at the nine books joining Peak Picks in June!

For fiction, Kirstin Chen tells the tale of two Asian American friends whose fake handbag scheme goes global in the feminist caper Counterfeit; 37-year-old Lola runs into ex after ex and suspects it’s more than a coincidence in Sloan Crosley’s ambitious and witty Cult Classic; a Ghanaian American medical student navigates love, parental expectations, career choices and more in Shirlene Obuobi’s charming debut On Rotation; the ambitious heroine of the much beloved novel and movie Election is back, and still has her eyes on the top prize – principal of her suburban New Jersey high school – in Tom Perrotta’s sharp and darkly comic Tracy Flick Can’t Win; and Kali Fajardo-Anstine returns with a multigenerational saga about an Indigenous Chicano family in the captivating epic Woman of Light.

In nonfiction, fans of Under the Banner of Heaven will be drawn to Sally Denton’s latest as she recounts the history of a polygamist Mormon outpost that resulted in the massacre of women and children in Northern Mexico in The Colony; Ibram X. Kendi gives parents, caregivers and teachers the tools to raise empowered critical thinkers in How to Raise an Antiracist; celebrated journalist Patrick Radden Keefe (Say Nothing, Empire of Pain) offers a collection of twelve pieces about grifters, killers, rebels and crooks in the enthralling and thought-provoking Rogues; and Seattle professors (and husband and wife) David Montgomery and Anna Biklé issue a call to action that a return to regenerative farming is key to combat chronic disease and climate change in What Your Food Ate.​

~posted by Frank