Here’s a sneak peek at the nine new books are joining Peak Picks in July!
In fiction, Soviet Ukraine-born and Brooklyn-raised Margarita Montimore (Oona Out of Order) tells the story of a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what happened to her, in Acts of Violet; Natasha Pulley gives readers an epic Cold War novel based on (sur)real events involving a nuclear explosion in the Siberian city Chelyabinsk in The Half Life of Valery K.; Bolu Babalola delights with a romance about Kiki Banjo, a young Black British woman who ends up in tangled in a fake relationship with a player who represents everything she preaches against in Honey & Spice; Gabrielle Zevin entices us with an exhilarating novel about Sam and Sadie, who collaborate on a video game that brings them fame and fortune but tests their creative and romantic ambitions in Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow; and bestselling author Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion) tells the tale of a man who finds that his genome has been hacked to help preserve the human species in the dark techno-thriller Upgrade.
In nonfiction, Erika L. Sánchez (I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter) recounts the “triumphs, disappointments, delights, and resurrections” of her life in this hilarious and touching memoir-in-essays Crying in the Bathroom; Isaac Fitzgerald reckons with toxic masculinity and body image following a life filled with poverty, violence and destructive addictions in the “confessional” Dirtbag, Massachusetts; theoretical physicist and cosmologist Antonio Padilla takes readers through nine extraordinary numbers in physics and how they explain everything from black holes to string theory in Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them; and Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree) uncovers her family legacy of healers who could talk to the dead, see the future, and change the weather in the magical The Man Who Could Move Clouds.
~posted by Frank B.
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