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.
A native San Franciscan who put down roots in Paris in the '80s and has become an expert on the City of Light, David Downie writes about some of our favorite things in A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food (St. Martins Press). Catch the author in conversation with Kimberley Lovato at Book Passage in Sausalito on October 11th (bookpassage.com).
