Conversations with Authors - Rumaan Alam with Edan Lepucki (Virtual Event)
Saturday, October 10th • 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET
Rumaan Alam
in conversation with Edan Lepucki
Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us throughout the week at 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET for a new chat with a different author.
Rumaan Alam’s latest release, the National Book Award-nominated Leave the World Behind, is a magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
Rumaan is also the author of the novels Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, and the New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He studied writing at Oberlin College and lives in New York with his family.
Edan Lepucki is the bestselling author of the novels California and Woman No. 17, and editor of Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them.
Below, please find links to purchase their books.
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction)
“A sparkling debut.” (People)
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY:
Buzzfeed • The Boston Globe • The Millions • InStyle • Southern Living • Vogue • Popsugar • Kirkus • The Washington Post • Library Journal • Real Simple • NPR
The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other.$16.00ISBN: 9781101904275Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hogarth - February 13th, 2018Washington Post Best Books of 2017
New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki's Woman No. 17 is a "winning novel.”
— New York Times Book Review
$24.99ISBN: 9781419742941Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harry N. Abrams - April 7th, 2020
