Jean Hanff Korelitz
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Friday, June 3, 2022, 6 pm
This is an online event
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Elliott Bay Book Company
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Jean Hanff Korelitz has been a highly praised author of several novels, and a playwright, theater producer, and essayist of note, but she became a considerably more known novelist with her brilliant mystery/thriller of last year, The Plot (Celadon). This virtual appearance not only celebrates the paperback release of The Plot, but also heralds a brand-new novel, The Latecomer (Celadon). "Jean Hanff Korelitz is an ambidextrous writer: not only can she write a tight and absorbing literary thriller like The Plot, but with The Latecomer she draws us in again, this time with her ease, grace and wit, in a satisfying novel that spans generations, lives, and fates."—Meg Wolitzer. “Korelitz returns with an irresistible dramedy of errors about a singularly unhappy family. There’s no love lost among Salo and Johanna Oppenheimer’s triplets as they head off to college in 2000. Harrison, “the smart one”; Lewyn, “the weird one”; and Sally, “the girl,” each have their own separate ambitions. Then there’s Phoebe, “the latecomer,” born that June from the Oppenheimers’ leftover frozen embryo. The strife in the couple’s difficult marriage originates in the 1970s, when they were students at Cornell. Salo was driving a Jeep that rolled over, killing his girlfriend, Mandy Bernstein, and a fraternity brother … Korelitz builds several satisfying twists into the crisp and panoramic narrative, and a coda from high schooler Phoebe in 2017 offers an acute look at the family affairs. This is a sizzler.” - Publishers Weekly.