$65
Includes One Beverage & a Copy of Leaving
In stock
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT March 20, 2024
The Center for Fiction
Members Lounge
We are thrilled to welcome Roxana Robinson (Cost) to our Members Lounge for an intimate conversation and reading from her powerful new novel, Leaving. In Robinson’s boldest work to date, two former lovers run into each other forty years after their breakup and a passion ignites—threatening the foundations of the lives they’ve built apart. Robinson demonstrates her “trademark gifts as an intelligent, sensitive analyst of family life” (Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune) in an engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves. Author, journalist, and radio host Kurt Andersen (Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland) joins Robinson for a rich discussion on Leaving, life, and literary craft. With a smaller audience, relaxed setting, and extended time for readers’ questions, this is sure to be a special evening.
Space for this event will be limited and the price of admission includes a copy of Leaving with your choice of a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic beverage from our Café & Bar.
Featuring
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Roxana Robinson
Roxana Robinson
Roxana Robinson is the award-winning author of six novels and three short story collections. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, and other publications. She lives in New York City and Connecticut, spends as much time as she can in Maine, and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College.
Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Featured Book
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Leaving
By Roxana Robinson
Published by W. W. Norton
Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites—threatening the foundations of the lives they’ve built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston.
Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in Sarah, who feels emotionally alive for the first time in decades. Still, she hesitates to reclaim a chance at love after her painful divorce and years of framing her life around her children and her work. Warren has no such reservations: he wants to leave his marriage but can’t predict how his wife and daughter will react. As their affair intensifies, Sarah and Warren must confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
Leaving charts a passage through loyalty and desire as it builds to a shattering conclusion. In her boldest and most powerful work to date, Roxana Robinson demonstrates her “trademark gifts as an intelligent, sensitive analyst of family life” (Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune) in an engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves.