Inside Interabang Books
National Read a Book Day is recognized on Sept. 6 and encourages everyone to indulge in their favorite pastime. Our friendly neighborhood bookstore, Interabang Books, curated a roundup of the best sellers from the summer.
Here’s a short list of good reads to celebrate and save for a bookshop haul.
1. The Anniversary – Stephanie Bishop
Novelist J.B Blackwood celebrates an anniversary trip on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, when tragedy strikes.
In the spring of 2020, a mother tells her three daughters about a theater company she used to work at. Through storytelling, Ann Patchett examines young love, motherhood and living other lives.
3. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
In 1972, during a construction project in Pottstown, PA, a discovery wasmade when a skeleton was found in a well. The identity of the skeleton and its placement remained a hidden secret within Chicken Hill, a diverse neighborhood where Jews and African Americans immigrated into and where Mosche and Chona Ludlow resided. They integrated their businesses together and collaborated to protect a deaf boy from state institutionalization.
Inspired by New York’s heyday of the 1920s, Diaz tells a glitzzy and mysterious tale about fortune, marriage and deceit.
This book dives into a tragic shipwreck where thirty men survived for thirty months and later praised as heroes. But, that doesn’t seem to be truthful case when witnesses come forward and say they were compared more to mutineers. Grann takes readers through a spellbinding journey of misleading characters and different kind of survival story.
An Immense World invites readers to expand their own senses and gain perspectives of different mammals in different environments. Yong questions what bees see in flowers, what fish feel in rivers, what songbirds hear in the trees and more.7. Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Inspired by Charles Dickens, Demon Copperhead is a modern day adaptation of David Copperfield set in rural America of the Appalachians. Kingsolver overlaps Dickens’s tone of poverty and the lower class.
8. A Little Luck – Claudia Pineiro
20 years after a shocking incident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped from as a different person. The story touches on themes of luck, bravery and dealing with tragedies no matter the size.
9. The Art Thief – Michael Finkel
Finkel’s book tells the true story about one of the most prolific art thieves Stéphane Breitwieser who stole countless artifacts with his criminal partner and girlfriend. This Bonnie and Clyde style duo gets their tale told in this story about art, crime and love.
