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NOVEMBER 18 @ 1 PM EST – ZOOM
November 18, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz – Virtual
The Latecomer: A Novel
FICTION
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s latest novel is about family: the obligations one has — or doesn’t have — the secrets we keep, and the stories we carry. The novel follows the Oppenheimers, a wealthy New York City – based family. The parents, Salo and Johanna, meet in college under devastating circumstances and begin a life together that eventually includes IVF and triplets. Despite finally having the children she desperately wanted, Johanna realizes that there are no strong familial bonds; the siblings aren’t particularly close, her marriage feels tenuous, and it’s almost like they are five individuals simply living under the same roof.
That all changes when Johanna decides to add another child to the family, going back to a leftover embryo after the triplets have left for college. When the three return home for the summer after their freshman year, things come to a head one night, and what happens next alters all of their lives forever. More than a decade later, the family “latecomer,” Phoebe, may be the key to reconciliation and togetherness — as well as the guide to finding long-buried answers.
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Plot, You Should Have Known (which aired on HBO in October 2020 as The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as a film in 2013 starring Tina Fey), The Devil and Webster, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for children. Her company BOOKTHEWRITER hosts Pop-Up Book Groups in which small groups of readers discuss new books with their authors. She lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon.
