The Book of Goose (fiction – hardbound) by Yiyun Li
This is a magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnès can live without her past. The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will. At its subtle core is a lesbian love story and it exemplifies why so many feel Yi’s use of queeness in all her novels is laudable and to be experienced.
Brown and Gay in LA (nonfiction/memoir – hardbound) by Anthony Christian Ocampo
These are the stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles. Growing up in the shadow of Hollwood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates, gay sexuality is unspoken, and heterosexuality is strictly enforced.
One Person, No Vote (nonfiction – paperback) by Carol Anderson
Just in time for the highly anticipated, anxiety inducing Midterm Elections, this important book about voter suppression is
available in paperback. With One Person, No Vote, Carol Anderson chronicles the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.
Upcoming Events
Sunday, October 9 @ 4 pm (free in store/Corte Madera & online) Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds, in conversation with Carolina de Robertis
Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary.
Thursday, October 13 @ 5 pm (free in store/Ferry Building) Anthony Christian Ocampo, author of Brown and Gay in LA
Brown and Gay in LA is an homage to second-generation gay men and their radical redefinition of what it means to be gay, to be a man, to be a person of color, and, ultimately, what it means to be an American. Anthony Christian Ocampo is a professor of
sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race and coeditor of Contemporary Asian America, 3rd edition.
Tuesday, October 18 @ 5:30 pm (free online) Fall panel special event- Midterm Elections 2022: Voting Rights and Defending Democracy
The event will feature a deep dive discussion about what’s at stake for the upcoming election and how you can get involved. It will feature renowned scholar Carol Anderson, author of One Person, No Vote; Professor Joshua Douglas, author of Vote for Us; and writer and voting rights advocate, Anita Gail Jones. She is a Bay Area resident from Albany, GA, who started Anita’s Peach Corps, an effort to get Californians involved in helping Georgia democratic candidates get elected.
Top of Your Stack – Book Recommendations from Book Passage
Published on October 6, 2022
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