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.
When former New Yorker Dave Eggers took his family to visit the Statue of Liberty in 2015, he noticed something new: "The lady was on the move." Get the story in Her Right Foot (Chronicle Books), illustrated by Shawn Harris, and meet the authors at Book Passage in Corte Madera on October 14th (bookpassage.com ) .
▲ Her beautifully rendered characters have made you laugh and cry. Now get ready for the ultimate in Amy Tan's revealing personal memoirWhere the Past Begins (Ecco Press). Then, go for a reading and book signing at Dominican University of California in San Rafael on October 23rd ($40 tickets at bookpassage.com).
▲ Easily one of San Francisco's most iconic authors, Armistead Maupin has recently penned his own personal tale of finding his Logical Family (Harper) in the city. On October 11th, spend the evening with Maupin at the Jewish Community Center of SF (tickets at jccsf.org ).
▲ 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 ).
▲ Joyce Maynard is getting up close and personal in The Best of Us (Bloomsbury), the story of her late-in-life marriage that was tragically cut short by illness.
▲ 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 ).
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