'Lessons in Chemistry' Author Bonnie Garmus Returns with 'Peck & Peck'

Her Debut Novel Was a Bestseller and a Hit TV Show. Her Follow-Up Is Just as Charming.

Bonnie Garmus’ Peck & Peck may not achieve the same popularity as Lessons in Chemistry, but it offers something fresh.

Bonnie Garmus Has Returned With Another Zany Must-Read Novel. These Books Inspired It

'Lessons in Chemistry' author Bonnie Garmus reveals her inspiration behind her new novel about a New York poetry magazine and what books she's been reading.

'Lessons in Chemistry' author Bonnie Garmus returns with 'Peck & Peck'

The book centers around Batter Gray, a young man with an ear for poetry and poor job prospects who becomes employed in the copy room of a highly prestigious literary magazine.

Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus

After the success of Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus returns with a story about a young man whose life is turned upside down when he is hired by the world's most prestigious (and dysfunctional) poetry journal.Set in New York City in the 1980s, recent graduate Batter Gray is struggling to find his direction in life. His classmates have pursued conventional careers, but he’s passionately drawn to poetry. It’s not an easy passion to turn into a…

Bonnie Garmus Is Back With Peck and Peck

Bonnie Garmus has a new book coming. And four years after Lessons in Chemistry turned Elizabeth Zott into one of contemporary fiction’s most memorable women, Garmus is taking readers somewhere entirely different. Peck & Peck, her second novel, is set in New York City in 1982. This time, at the centre of the story is Batter Gray, a recent college graduate who possesses a talent that appears spectacularly unhelpful when it comes to earning a livin…