Twelve new books are joining Peak Picks in October!
FICTION. Amanda Peters debuts with the tale of a a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl who disappears from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a fifty year mystery that will haunt the survivors and unravel a family in The Berry Pickers; Bryan Washington (Lot, Memorial) returns with a tale about TJ and Cam, once best friends but uneasy following a major loss in Family Meal; Tan Twan Eng (The Garden of Evening Mists) delivers a spellbinding historical novel based on W. Somerset Maugham’s experiences in Malay after World War I in the Booker Prize nominated The House of Doors; Jesmyn Ward, the the two-time National Book Award winner (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) reimagines slavery with the story of Annis, an enslaved girl comforted by the memories of her ancestors in Let Us Descend; Jhumpa Lahiri offers her first short story collection since 2008’s Unaccustomed Earth with nine stories set in Rome (and translated from her adopted Italian language) in Roman Stories; and Hugo Award winner Alix Harrow (The Ten Thousand Doors of January) delivers a modern haunted house story after generational curses are unleashed in the gothic fairy tale Starling House.
NONFICTION. Bestselling author Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Moneyball) traces the roller coaster ride that led to FTX’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center, Samuel Bankman-Fried, in Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon; New Yorker staff writer Safiya Sinclair shares her struggle to break free of her repressive Rastafarian upbringing and how she found her voice as a poet in How to Say Babylon: A Memoir; Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, delivers a blistering, unconventional memoir about colonization and life as a refugee in the National Book Award nominee A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial; Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) is back with nine interconnected stories that follow a young woman searching for the mother who abandoned her in the graphic novel Monica; MSNBC host Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy to the public servants and private citizens who fought a right-wing alliance with the Nazis during the second World War in Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism; and Michelin-starred chef Eric Ripert features 85 accessible recipes for preparing fish at home in Seafood Simple: A Cookbook.
~ posted by Frank B
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