Ten books are joining Peak Picks in June!
In fiction, the first Black sheriff of a Small southern town battles racism while on the hunt for a serial killer in S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed; the first novel from Roxane Gay Books follows two queer Nigerian students amid the passage of new anti-gay laws in Ani Kayode’s debut And Then He Sang a Lullaby; three generations of Vietnamese women grapple with secrets and burdens following the death of their matriarch in Thao Thai’s Banyan Moon; twin sisters and their older brother, just out of prison, come of age over the holy month of Ramadan in Aisha Abdel Gawad’s Between Two Moons; and bestselling historical novelist Lisa See returns with Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China.
In nonfiction, Michael Finkel (The Stranger in the Woods) profiles Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole hundreds of objects until hubris brought him down in The Art Thief; Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral “Central Park birder” video and recounts his life as a gay Black man in the natural world in Better Living Through Birding; Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner chronicles the rise of Seattle grunge scene, from skate parks to worldwide phenomenon in Mud Ride; Juno and The Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page shares the truth of his evolution as a trans advocate in Hollywood in Pageboy: A Memoir; and Darrin Bell meditates on the conversation Black parents must have with their children about racism in the graphic memoir The Talk.
~posted by Frank B.
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