Amarnath Ravva’s meditative memoir American Canyon will be officially launching in October, but it’s already starting to create buzz online.

Here’s a great interview with KCRW’s Lisa Napoli about Ravva’s inspiration for the book: “It had to do with my displacement, my fractured identity, having one foot in the past in India, and another in America, and never knowing who I was.”

American Canyon has also been showing up on various reading lists:

• Harriet, a poetry blog from the Poetry Foundation.

• HTML Giant, with Brent Armendinger.

• Entropy Magazine, an online website for literary and non-literary ideas.