Cathleen Schine

Diane Leslie's Book Group with Author meets to discuss Cathleen Schine's novel, Fin & Lady, on Wednesday, October 16th at 5pm.

The best part? Cathleen Schine will be joining in the discussion!In 1964, Fin is eleven years old. His grandparents and father have passed away, and when his sick mother dies, Finn becomes an orphan. The only one to take care of him is Lady, his glamorous, worldly, older half-sister, whom he hasn't seen since he was five. Lady uproots Finn from his life in rural Connecticut and immerses him in her life in Greenwich Village. This is the swinging sixties we're talking about too, when a counterculture revolution wrestled with the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. In this coming of age story, Finn learns the meaning of family, and that headstrong, determined-to-be-free Lady is as much his responsibility as he is hers.

Cathleen Schine is the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, The New Yorkers, and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review.

Please Note: Reservations are required for this event and there is a $20 fee.

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Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood welcomes author Cathleen Schine to the store to discuss and sign her new book, Fin and Lady, on Thursday, August 8th at 7pm.

In 1964, Fin is eleven years old. His grandparents and father have passed away, and when his sick mother dies, Finn has become an orphan. The only one to take care of him is Lady, his glamorous, worldly, older half-sister, whom he hasn't seen since he was five. Lady uproots Finn from his life in rural Connecticut and immerses him in her life in Greenwich Village. This is the swinging sixties we're talking about too, when a counterculture revolution wrestled with the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. In this coming of age story, Finn learns the meaning of family, and that Lady is as much his responsibility as he is hers.

Cathleen Schine is the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, The New Yorkers, and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review.

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The Book Cellar welcome's author Cathleen Schine and her new book, Fin & Lady. At the heart of the novel lies the search for a new kind of family. Around this story is wrapped New York in the 60’s, Greenwich Village in particular, which Schine captures thoroughly: Nehru jackets, drugs and happenings, sit-ins and marches against the Vietnam War, desegregation—changes, large and small—all searches for new ways to be free and happy.

Schine is the author of the novels The New Yorkers and The Love Letter. Her most recent novel, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, was a national bestseller and filled bookstores across the country when Schine visited. Fin & Lady is a marvelous follow-up and promises to be a great summer read.

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It’s 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn’t seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging ’60s. He soon learns that Lady—giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free—is as much his responsibility as he is hers.

So begins Fin & Lady, the lively, spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine, the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the ’60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War—Lady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself.

From a writer The New York Times has praised as “sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting,” Fin & Lady is a comic, romantic love story: the story of a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional family in increasingly unconventional times.

About the Author

Cathleen Schine is the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, The New Yorkers, and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review.

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Fin & Lady Cathleen Schine Cathleen Schine is the author of the novels The Love Letter, which was adapted into a film starring Kate Capshaw, and Rameau’s Niece, which was adapted into the movie The Misadventures of Margaret starring Parker Posey. Schine’s other novels include Alice in Bed, To the Bird House, The Evolution of Jane, She is Me, The New Yorkers, and the recent “sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting” (New York Times) bestseller, The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Her articles appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Her new novel Fin & Lady is a clever, comic love story about a brother and sister who form an unconventional family in 1960s Greenwich Village. My Education Susan Choi In Susan Choi’s Asian-American Literary Award-winning first novel, The Foreign Student, two outsiders with dark histories are drawn together against the haunting backdrop of war and the 1950s American South. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and her third, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. With David Remnick she co-edited the fiction anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker, and her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue, Tin House, the New York Times and elsewhere. My Education is the erotically charged story of one graduate student’s disastrous relationship with an infamous professor. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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It’s 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn’t seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging ’60s. He soon learns that Lady—giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free—is as much his responsibility as he is hers. So begins Fin & Lady, the lively, spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine, the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the ’60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War—Lady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself. Cathleen Schine is the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, The New Yorkers, and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review.

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Orphaned at age eleven, Fin moves to Greenwich Village to live with his older half-sister, Lady. It’s 1964. The world is changing fast, and as the siblings are swept up in the social and cultural revolutions swirling around them, Fin tries to save the impulsive Lady from her own recklessness. Schine, author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, again shows her flair for storytelling that’s both comic and affecting.

Beer and wine will be available.

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