KAREN JOY FOWLER
Friday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m.

We are delighted to welcome Karen Joy Fowler back. Last here for her enduringly popular novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, she is here with Wit's End (Putnam), another novel that evokes books and the reading life—but in other, surprising ways. "At the start of this quietly funny, slightly mysterious novel of discovering one's roots ... 29-year-old Rima Lanisell visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early ... Addison, the wildly successful but cautiously private author of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, was once the girlfriend of Rima's recently deceased father ... As Fowler analyzes our modern-day relationship to novels and writers' relationship to their readers, the line between fiction and reality blurs—real people become characters in another's blog as fictional characters become real to the fans that fetishize them." - Publishers Weekly.

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