This year's fall reading list comes to you courtesy of some mighty Bay Area pen-wielders, including a few who are making magic of the memoir.
Step inside the one-track dirty mind of a teenage boy with Daniel Handler; empathize with the childhood trauma of Amy Tan; find your "logical family" with Armistead Maupin; go through cancer with Joyce Maynard; and let Dave Eggers tell your kids the real story of the Statue of Liberty.
You've got a lot of reading to do.
Isabel Allende does her thing in In the Midst of Winter (Atria Books), a love story between two 60-somethings who've been brought together by unexpected circumstances. Join Allende for a Literary Luncheon at Book Passage in Corte Madera on October 31st (bookpassage.com).
