This week Alice and Kim talk about an upcoming Mary Roach book, great new memoirs, and books about nature and the land.
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Nonfiction in the News
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
New Nonfiction
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest by Mark Synnott
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt by Audrey Clare Farley
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
We Are Bridges: A Memoir by Cassandra Lane
I Am a Girl From Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Marie Claire: “Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Nyamayaro on Building Compassion and Gender Equity”
The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Joe Grinspan
Science, Nature, and the Land
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Reading Now
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali
City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker
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