We start with Butter by Asako Yuzuki, which features a gourmet cook imprisoned for serial murder and the journalist who interviews her. Butter is inspired by a true story, as is Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
Take My Hand centers around questions of reproductive freedom in the 1970s.
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All You Have to Do is Call by Kerri Maher is a fictionalized account of the Jane Collective, an underground abortion network in the 1970s.
All You Have to Do is Call takes place in Chicago.
Much of the action in *
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano takes place in Chicago.
Basketball is a big part of Hello Beautiful.
Basketball also features in *
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian takes place in Washington State.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, the subject of Undaunted Courage, ends in Washington State.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition also crossed through Idaho.
What says Idaho more than potatoes?! We end with
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Saved the Western World.
From Butter to The Potato!
*indicates that I've read the book
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