Matt Nixon of A Capella Books shares his summer reading list

For many, warm weather means summer reading, whether you’re vacationing, enjoying more leisure time, or you just enjoy reading at home. “City Lights” gathered recommendations from writer Matt Nixon, also a bookseller at A Capella Books. He joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom to share his curated list of great reads for the summer.

Highlights from Matt Nixon’s summer reading picks:

“A Tiny Upward Shove” by Melissa Chadburn – “It’s remarkable, and I’d even go so far as to say it’s not only the best thing I’ve read this year – I don’t know that I’ve read five better things over the last several years,” Nixon attested. “There’s no way I’ll do justice to the beauty and grace that exists within these pages…. Our main character is a young woman named Marina Salles, and it opens at the moment of her death at the hands of another person, of a man. And as she’s dying, we take on the viewpoint of what we come to find out is the ‘eswang’ …. It’s a Filipino myth of the spirit, and we’re guided then through Marina’s life, three generations of women.”