Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry comes a story that’s every bit as tender, witty, and quietly wise as her beloved debut. If you fell for Elizabeth Zott, pull up a chair. This one’s for you.

Meet Batter Gray. Named after his mother’s heroic dog, he’s an identical twin who lost his brother at birth—and a young man in his early twenties who wants something the world can’t quite make sense of. Not a career in medicine or law. Not security or a corner office. He wants poetry.

And poetry, it turns out, wants him. Batter lands a job at the most prestigious, secretive, and gloriously dysfunctional poetry journal on earth: the renowned Peck & Peck of New York City. There, alongside exactly thirty-nine devoted editors, he discovers that verse might just hold the key to humanity’s survival.

This is a coming-of-age tale about the dualities that shape a life. Right and wrong. Truth and lies. Rejection and acceptance. It’s almost as if Batter’s lost brother is whispering a reminder: there are always two sides to every story.

No, wait. Make that three.

Warm, funny, and full of heart, this new hardcover release is the kind of book you’ll want to linger over on a rainy afternoon—the salt air drifting in, the pages turning slow. A satirical, deeply human story about following your calling, even when nobody else understands it.

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