In conversation with Lynda Loigman Cohen, moderated by Julia Libeskind, at Church of the Redeemer, 11:00 am to 11:50 am
About the author
Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide best seller and became a major motion picture. She lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.
MFOB featured book: Don’t Be a Stranger
A mesmerizing new novel: the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life.
Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel’s beguiling good looks and quiet intensity instantly seduce her. Despite the gulf between their ages and experience the physical chemistry between them is overpowering, and over the heady weeks and months that follow Ivy finds her life bifurcated by his presence: On the surface she is a responsible mother, managing the demands of friends, an ex-husband, home; but emotionally, psychologically, sexually, she is consumed by desire and increasingly alive only in the stolen moments-out-of-time, with Ansel in her bed.
Susan Minot has crafted a luminous novel about erotic obsession, and the hunger for intimacy, communication, oblivion. The book is a gripping, sensual, and provocative work from one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary fiction.
