Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus

Category:Fiction/Literary Fiction/Contemporary

Rating:3.96/5 

Pages:480 

About the Book:
Peck & Peck is the second novel by Bonnie Garmus, the internationally bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry. Set in New York City in 1982, the story follows Batter Gray, a recent college graduate who is struggling to find his place in a world where his passion for poetry seems to have little practical value.

Batter's life changes when he gets a job at Peck & Peck, a prestigious but secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal. Inside its offices, he becomes caught between the journal's famous twin editors-in-chief and the complicated world of its thirty-nine editors, where originality is prized and anything considered inadequate is ruthlessly discarded. As Batter becomes increasingly involved in the magazine's unusual inner workings, he is forced to confront questions about creativity, identity, ambition, truth, and belonging.

Bonnie Garmus brings together literary satire, humor, coming-of-age themes, and an exploration of the power of words and creative expression. The novel is set against the distinctive social and cultural atmosphere of early-1980s New York.