Nine new titles are joining Peak Picks in August!
Fiction features three highly anticipated new titles by bestselling authors: Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising) returns with the story of a retired tennis pro who returns to the court after watching her records shattered by a rising new star in Carrie Soto Is Back; Mohsin Hamid (Exit West) channels Kafka in The Last White Man, an allegorical tale that finds Anders, a white man, confronting a new reality after he wakes up one day with dark skin; and Seattle born and raised Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) chronicles The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, where former Washington poet laureate Dorothy Moy seeks to break intergenerational trauma that has been passed down through seven generations of Chinese women. With the final fiction pick, Navajo police photographer Rita Todacheene’s ability to communicate with the dead puts her life at risk from a particularly angry ghost in Ramona Emerson’s debut thriller Shutter.
In nonfiction, local authors and topics feature prominently: Polina Chesnakova, culinary director for The Book Larder in Fremont, debuts with Everyday Cake, featuring 45 simple recipes for easy layer, bundt, loaf and sheet cakes; UW professor Chantel Prat’s interactive and humorous tour of the human brain helps readers understand how their own mind works in The Neuroscience of You; UC Riverside professor Megan Asaka reconsiders the development of Seattle through the lens of Asian migrants and Indigenous peoples who were both exploited and displaced in Seattle From the Margins; and Seattle’s Sanae Ishida follows up Sewing Happiness with Sewing Love, empowering crafters to embrace sewing as a radical act of self-care and make beautiful and easy handmade clothes. Finally, LGBTQ researcher Steven W. Thrasher looks at COVID-19 and HIV to reveal how viruses expose society’s fault lines and disproportionately impact marginalized groups in The Viral Underclass.
~posted by Frank
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