We Recommend: More than Meets the Eye
The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco: A Mystery, Michelle Chouinard, MA ’02, PhD ’05; Minotaur Books. When a copycat killer strikes, all eyes turn to a quirky S.F. tour guide, the granddaughter of a notorious murderer intent on clearing his name.
Gita Desai Is Not Here to Shut Up: A Novel, Sonia Patel, ’95; Dial Books. A Stanford frosh in a self-destructive spiral fights to reclaim what was stolen from her as a child.
Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong, Katie Gee Salisbury, ’07, MA ’08; Dutton. This Jazz Age actress lit up the silver screen to international acclaim while pushing back against the racism and sexism endemic in the film industry.
How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America, Caroline Winterer, professor of history; Princeton U. Press. In the mid-1800s, geologists rocked the young country with an epoch discovery: This “new” land was older than dirt.
The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin: A Study of Authenticity and the Art Market, Stephanie A. Brown, ’92, PhD ’96; Rowman & Littlefield. Is a community museum’s prized still-life truly a postimpressionist gem, long thought lost—and what makes it so hard to determine?
Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve, Alison Fragale, PhD ’04; Doubleday. Personable and powerful: Don’t let an all-too-common catch-22 keep you from the corner office.
Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere, Rob Jackson, professor of Earth system science; Scribner. What can one person do today to help heal the planet? Plenty.
