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.
The master of the graphic novel, Paul Madonna's Close Enough For the Angels is a divinely illustrated mystery. See him in conversation with publisher Andy Weiner in Corte Madera on September 30th (bookpassage.com).
