Noggin is the most absurd realistic-fiction book ever written. A 16-year-old boy wakes up after a full head transplant only to realize all his friends have grown up and moved on. As he gets accustomed to his new life he has to make new friends his own age, while keeping his five-years-older friends too. (And …
In Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author’s childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived fierce “sword drill” competitions demanding total recall of the Scriptures and …
