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Ananda Devi will be in conversation with Michelle Hoover.
Sex. Wine. Jazz. Existential dread.
Bonnie Jo Campbell reads at Porter Square along with her cousin Mimi Lipson, a short story writer and memoirist.
Join two bestselling authors of historical romance at PSB.
When Alizee Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration, vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner.
Donald is an optometrist, his wife, Viv, manages a riding stable. When a beautiful horse, the dapple grey Mercury, arrives at the stables, Viv rediscovers her ambitions to become a champion rider and begins to pour time and money into training him. Her infatuation with the thoroughbred escalates to obsession, as she comes to believe that Mercury is in danger.
Born into a wealthy Parisian family at the center of Belle Epoque society, 18-year-old Aimee Savaray dreams of becoming a respected painter in the male-dominated art world; secretly, she also dreams of being loved by Henri, the boy her parents took in as a child and raised alongside her.
From the author of The Welsh Girl comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.
A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing’s Junior National Tennis Team.
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Born in London, J.R. Thornton graduated from Harvard in 2014 where he studied history, English and Chinese. He lived in Beijing as a teenager, returning recently to undertake a fellowship at the International Writer’s Center at Beijing Normal University. An internationally ranked tennis player as a junior, he later competed for the Harvard men’s team and on the professional circuit. Beautiful Country is his debut novel.
Two local novelists present their latest works.