Books by Bay Area Authors
Jan 17, 2017 06:20PM ● By Lynn CareyBooks by Bay Area Authors
By Lynn Carey
Dear Friend, From
My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Yiyun Li
(Random House,
February 2017)
Oakland author Li is best known for her much-lauded fiction
novels. Now in her first non-fiction work, “Dear Friend,” the Beijing native
and former biologist shares the story of the two years she battled suicidal
depression. The book was “written out of willingness to acknowledge what shapes
us…and willfulness to defy any definition imposed by those external terms.” In
it Li explores how writing and reading bring solace, and reflects on the
writers who shaped her life.
An Unsettling
Crime for Samuel Craddock
Terry Shames
(Seventh Street
Books, January 2017)
With a timely nod to the racial issues currently in the
news, small town Chief of Police Craddock finds himself at odds with a racist
Texas State Trooper during a multiple murder investigation. When a young black
man Craddock respects is arrested for the crime, he starts his own
investigation, putting himself and his family in danger. In his sixth book in
the award-winning series, the Berkeley author reveals what it means to be
upstanding and dedicated to justice.
Fatal
John Lescroart
(Atria, January
2017)
A chance meeting results in a series of horrifying events in
Lescroart’s latest thriller. Kate, who has a wonderful husband, two children
and a lovely San Francisco home, obsesses over a man she met at a friend’s
dinner party. After an explosive, passionate encounter, she assumes life will go
on as before. But her erstwhile paramour is not as willing to move on and
wreaks havoc and danger upon Kate’s life.
A Train Through
Time
A Life Real and
Imagined
Elizabeth
Farnsworth
(Counterpoint,
February 2017)
As a child, filmmaker and journalist Farnsworth struggled
with the loss of her mother by searching train stations on a cross-country trip
with her father. The Berkeley author addresses how memory shapes our lives by
weaving sad recollections from that train trip with memories of reporting from
danger zones around the world. Farnsworth is the former chief correspondent of
PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
A Really Good Day
How Microdosing
Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
Ayelet Waldman
(Knopf, January
2017)
When Berkeley author Waldman’s severe mood storms wreaked
havoc on her life, she joined an underground group of scientists and civilians
and began experimenting with therapeutic microdoses of LSD. “A Really Good Day”
charts her experiences on the drug in an eye-opening, enthralling and often
hilarious story.
Author Event. Celebrity
chef and author Rebecca Katz demonstrates a healthy soup recipe from her new
cookbook “Clean Soups,” while in conversation with Lynn Carey. Katz left the
corporate world to seek a more nourishing life, and believes healthy food
should also be tasty. February 16, Del Valle Education Center, Community Room
401, 1963 Tice Valley Blvd., WC. Tickets $10 at (925) 280-3980 ext. 4133.
