Alice McDermott, “a genius of quiet observation . . . one of our finest novelists at work today” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), is the author of six novels, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist
That Night, the bestselling
Child of My Heart, and the National Book Award winner
Charming ... (more). She reads from her latest novel,
After This, which, like her other works, explores Irish Catholic American life. Columbian writer Laura Restrepo, a life-long peace activist, is a leading figure in the Latin American literary scene. The Washington Post says of her latest novel,
Delirium, the sixth to be translated into English, “Laura Restrepo’s Delirium is a book-and-a-half: stunning, dense, complex, mind-blowing. The novel goes far above politics, right up into high art.”
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