We’re adding ten new Peak Picks in November – including some late October releases!
In fiction, Marisa Kashino’s debut follows Margo, a desperate buyer on the edge in an insanely competitive housing market in Best Offer Wins, a darkly humorous exploration of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis; Oynkian Braithwaite, author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer, turns her attention to Eniiyi, a young woman who must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin Monife in this brilliantly perceptive Cursed Daughters; Bryan Washington returns with Palaver — already nominated as a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction! — a life-affirming novel about a mother and a son, estranged for ten years, who reconnect in the son’s chosen city of Tokyo in the weeks leading up to Christmas; Kendra Coulter chronicles a century of American history as it unfolds through the eyes of a giant tortoise with a heightened awareness for live music, the location of edible flowers, and the nuances of human behavior in the spellbinding debut novel A Tortoise’s Tale; and the latest from C.J. Farley, Who Knows You by Heart, is a sly, witty, and endlessly discussable tale of Big Tech, new money, relationships, race, and discovering what’s real in an age of artificial intelligence.
In nonfiction, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years with a resounding collection of essays in Dead and Alive; Christine Kuehn debuts with a propulsive, never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Family of Spies; from comedian, Emmy-nominated writer and producer, and former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., comes The Man of Many Fathers, an unforgettable, laugh-out-loud funny memoir which reveals that sometimes the best advice comes from the most surprising teachers; from Joseph Nguyen, author of Don’t Believe Everything You Think, comes a companion guide that transforms the paralyzing cycle of overthinking into clear, intuitive decision-making with The Overthinker’s Guide to Making Decisions; and the long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe–one of America’s most iconic journalists and filmmakers–The Uncool is a joyful dispatch from a lost world, a chronicle of the real-life events that became Almost Famous, and a coming-of-age journey filled with music legends as you’ve never seen them before.
~posted by Frank. Descriptions provided by publishers.