We’re adding eleven new Peak Picks in September!
In nonfiction, Elizabeth Gilbert, who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat, Pray, Love) and creatively (Big Magic), shows how to break free with her first nonfiction book in a decade, All the Way to the River; Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Greenblatt explores the dangerous times and fatal genius of Shakespeare’s greatest rival, Christopher Marlowe, in Dark Renaissance; In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays, David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals in History Matters; Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness) traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer, in the raw and deeply moving memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me; Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection−a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time, as well as the triumphs and delights of her remarkable creative life−are captured in The New Book; and from Mary Roach (Stiff and Fuzz) comes a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy in Replaceable You.
In fiction, from Nathan Harris (The Sweetness of Water) comes a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to escape a former master still intent on their bondage in Amity; Master of literary horror Dan Chaon delivers a playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival in One of Us; Naomi Novik (Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy) returns with a poignant, heartfelt novella about a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love and must find a way to undo her spell in The Summer War; National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy’s much-anticipated second book, an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife, is at the heart of The Wilderness; and Patricia Lockwood, one of our most original writers, pens a brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman’s dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, with Will There Ever Be Another You.
~posted by Frank. All descriptions provided by publishers.