Oct
14
11:30pm
Caroline Leavitt and Jill McCorkle
By Watchungbooksellers
A conversation about exploring secrets and searching for happiness from best-selling novelists Caroline Leavitt and Jill McCorkle.
In New York Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt’s With or Without You, it seems at first that happiness can come only at another’s expense. Stella is a nurse who has long suppressed her own needs and desires to nurture the dreams of her partner, Simon, the bass player for a rock band that has started to lose its edge. But when Stella gets unexpectedly ill and falls into a coma just as Simon is preparing to fly with his band to Los Angeles for a gig that could revive his career, Simon must learn the meaning of sacrifice, while Stella’s best friend and physician, Libby, must also make a difficult choice as the coma wears on.
A story of love, loyalty, loss, and resilience, With or Without You is a page-turner that expertly explores the struggles and conflicts that people face in their search for happiness.
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In her mesmerizing new novel Hieroglyphics, “born novelist” (New York Times) Jill McCorkle explores the burden of secrets carried across generations. Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically— lost a parent when they were children. Now, as retirees, Lil wants to leave a history for their children, but as they each dive into their past, they find some memories are easier left unburied and not all parents are ones you wish to remember.
In this masterful and deeply layered story, McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us--making sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.
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