Fall Reading Cheat Sheet
FOR FANS OF: NBC’s Making It, Bravo’s Project Runway, or shopping vintage A sweater gets a hole? Sew it closed. In this mending manifesto, clothes historian Kate Sekules makes a case for embracing your wardrobe’s wear and tear by stitching, patching, and embroidering the imperfections. Part history and part how-to, Mend! traces the task’s evolution from a 1950s chore to a DIY sustainability movement. MEND! By Kate Sekules (Penguin Books, September 8) FOR FANS OF: Hidden Figures, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, or Beyoncé’s Lemonade As a neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford, Gifty researches suffering. The project is personal: Her brother died of an overdose, her evangelical mother is suicidal, and her immigrant father abandoned them to return to Ghana. In moving prose, Yaa Gyasi’s latest novel chronicles a young woman’s struggle with science and religion. TRANSCENDENT…