Michael Cunningham with Enrico Rotelli - Day: A Novel (Corte Madera Store)
Book Passage Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
United States
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Michael Cunningham
In conversation with Enrico Rotelli
Day: A Novel
Corte Madera Store
Sun., January 7, 2024 • 1:00pm PT
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We are delighted to once again welcome acclaimed novelist Michael Cunningham to the store as he presents his latest masterpiece, a novel of heartbreakingly acute observation and compassion for the human condition, Day: A Novel.
A “quietly stunning” (Ocean Vuong) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life—and how we all must learn to live together and apart—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours
“Along with George Eliot, Michael Cunningham belongs in that rare group of novelists who hold the world close, with apparently infinite respect, compassion, and tenderness, all while describing the world and its inhabitants unsparingly.”—Tony Kushner
A HARPER’S BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart—and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, is living vicariously through a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house—and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.
April 5, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown, the cozy brownstone is starting to feel more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled sleights and frustrated sighs. And dear Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts—and his secret Instagram life—for company.
April 5, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family reckons with a new, very different reality—and with what they’ve learned, what they’ve lost, and how they might go on.
Michael Cunningham is a novelist, screenwriter, and educator. His novel The Hours received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1999. He has taught at Columbia University and Brooklyn College. He is currently a professor in the practice at Yale University.
Enrico Rotelli is an Italian writer and journalist. His articles on U.S. literature received the Premio Amerigo 2020. He has translated The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and his last book is the auto fiction Nanda e io. He lives between San Francisco and Milan.
Michael Cunningham photo courtesy of Richard Phibbs. Enrico Rotelli photo credit Jamil Hellu.


