We’re adding eleven new Peak Picks in May!
In fiction, Laurie Frankel returns with an exuberant and timely new novel, Enormous Wings, about 77-year-old Pepper Mills, who moves into a retirement community, falls in love—and becomes pregnant; the latest from Walter Mosley, Ghalen, is a beautiful coming-of-age novel that explores love in all forms—romantic, familial, and platonic, centered on one Black family, including a neurodivergent man, and the found bonds that helps ground them; from Sunyi Dean (The Book Eaters) comes The Girl with a Thousand Faces, a stunning Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive; Portia Elan debuts with Homebound, which chronicles five lives that are entangled across time by one story of survival and hope, uploaded to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries; and Vincent Yu arrives with Seek Immediate Shelter, a breathtaking debut novel about survival, hope, and second chances in an Asian American community in Massachusetts when a false missile throws the residents’ lives into chaos.
In nonfiction, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world and the architect of the two biggest ideas to reshape the American conversation about fairness, offers the intimate story of how her life gave birth to these ideas in Backtalker; in his new collection The Land and Its People, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are “among the best of his career” (Publishers Weekly, starred review); bestselling children’s author Mac Barnett’s first book for adults, Make Believe, is a rallying cry for art and imagination, and a celebration of the power of storytelling in all our lives; Sara Nović (True Biz) retraces her path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community—and seeks to understand what it means to raise children who are different from her—in the emotionally rich memoir Mother Tongue; America’s favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson returns with Take Me to Your Leader, a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration of how it might happen, and a cultural history of our fascination with extraterrestrials; and Belle Burden’s Strangers, the most popular memoir of the year so far, about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriage—is an aching, love-filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy.
~posted by Frank. All descriptions provided by publishers.
