We’re adding ten new Peak Picks in October!
In fiction, Anna North astonishes with the tale of Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist who is called to investigate a body found in a bog in Northwest England – but this body is unlike any she’s ever seen – in Bog Queen; Daniel H. Wilson draws on his Cherokee heritage in a gripping sci-fi thriller that doubles as a Native American first contact story in Hole in the Sky; Washington State Book Award winner Sonora Jha’s third novel features a middle-aged woman who starts a firestorm when she holds a contest, based on an ancient Indian ritual, in which men must compete to win her affections in the compelling Intemperance; Literary icon Thomas Pynchon returns with the story of Hicks McTaggart, a private eye during the Great Depression who finds himself on a wild goose chase in search of a missing Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress in Shadow Ticket; and the latest from Quan Barry, a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America’s racial legacy, will terrify readers in The Unveiling.
In nonfiction, from Renton-based Kat Lieu comes a first-of-its-kind collection of not-too-sweet treats from a third culture kitchen in 108 Asian Cookies; activist, journalist and novelist Cory Doctorow, knows that’s it’s not just us – the internet sucks now – and shows us how we can improve the state of the digital world in Enshittification; Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief and The Library Book), hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post, delivers a masterful memoir of finding her creative calling and purpose that invites us to approach life with wonder, curiosity, and an irrepressible sense of delight in Joyride; “Queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times) Mariana Enriquez fascinates with an enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world — part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death” – in the evocative Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave; and Julian Brave NoiseCat – Oscar-nominated filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history – interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of Indigenous survival, love, and resurgence in We Survived the Night.
~posted by Frank. All descriptions provided by publishers.