Eight new titles are joining Peak Picks in September!
For nonfiction, New York Times food writer Melissa Clark’s follow up to Dinner in French features 100 one-pot, one-pan and one-sheet recipes that are perfect for weeknights in Dinner in One; poet Javier Zamora tells the harrowing story of his three-thousand mile journey, alone among strangers as a nine-year-old, from El Salvador to the U.S to reunite with family in Solito; Randall Munroe continues his quest to find serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions in What If? 2; and The Disability Visibility Project founder Alice Wong reflects on her life as an Asian American disabled activist through essays, interviews and artwork in The Year of the Tiger (celebrate the release of this book with authors Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Elsa Sjunneson on September 15th in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and Estelita’s Library).
In fiction, Laurie R. King (“Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes” series) delivers a standalone mystery involving a 50-year-old skull found on the grounds of a California estate that was once a commune in Back to the Garden; Namwali Serpell’s (The Old Drift) sophomore effort tells the story of a family torn apart after one of them disappears during a terrible accident in The Furrows; Andrew Sean Greer’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Less features the ever-awkward but lovable Arthur Less on a road trip across America in Less is Lost; and Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet) travels to Renaissance Italy and finds 15-year-old Lucrezia de Medici being married off against her will, following the death of her sister in The Marriage Portrait.
And, Luis Alberto Urrea makes an encore appearance with The House of Broken Angels, this year’s Seattle Reads pick, about the Mexican American De La Cruz family as they get together for a last legendary birthday party.
~posted by Frank
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