Simon
Winchester’s first book, The Professor and the Madman,
a bestseller about the Oxford English Dictionary, was followed by another
best-seller, The Map That Changed the World, so readers have eagerly
awaited his newest book, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August
27, 1883. The explosion, the most catastrophic eruption in history,
continues to impact our world and proves a worthy subject for Winchester’s
talent.
photo of Simon Winchester by Marion Ettlinger
Ruth Ozeki, whose first novel, My Year of Meats, won her immediate acclaim and devotion, has just published All Over Creation, a both serious and humorous novel about agribusiness and genetically engineered food. It features Yumi Fuller (nicknamed “Yummy”), a Japanese-American prodigal daughter and single mother of three mixed-race children, returning to the Idaho farm she fled some 25 years earlier. The imaginative Ozeki has gone from meat to potatoes!
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