Conversations with Authors - Ursula Hegi (Virtual Event)
Saturday, August 29th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT
Ursula Hegi
in conversation with Barbara Wright
Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author.
Dear Readers,
I’m so glad you joined Book Passage during my conversation with Barbara Wright. We met in graduate school at UNH 4 decades ago and have been the initial readers of each other’s work.
Thank you to Elaine Petrocelli who has created a brilliant system of keeping readers and writers connected during this age of fear and death and uncertainty.
Yesterday’s virtual connection to you felt oddly reassuring. Inspiring.
Right now I’m reading:
- The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey (text and audio)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (for the 7th time)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Stay safe. Stay well. Keep reading. And vote.
—Ursula
Below, please find links to purchase all of the books recommended by Ursula, as well as hers and Barbara's own books.
A People Book of the Week | An O Magazine Best Book of the Fall| A USA Today Book Not to Miss
New York Times Bestseller
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occ
"Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." —The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures.$18.00ISBN: 9781501117084Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atria Books - April 5th, 2016“A remarkable novel” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s introducing her most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.
Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and worki$26.99ISBN: 9781250156822Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Flatiron Books - August 18th, 2020"A joy to read." —New York Times Book Review
From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans.$18.00ISBN: 9781451608304Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Scribner - May 8th, 2012The fourth novel in Ursula Hegi’s acclaimed Burgdorf cycle is “a thoughtful, sidelong approach to the worst moment in Germany’s history that invites us to understand how decent people come to collaborate with evil” (Kirkus Reviews).
Children and Fire tells the story of one day that will forever transform the lives of the people in Burgdorf, Germany, the$17.99ISBN: 9781416543763Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Touchstone - September 2nd, 2008Friends since earliest childhood, Annie, Jake, and Mason have a special bond. When Annie's parents die on the same night that she and Mason get married, the three friends decide to raise Annie's infant sister, Opal, together. But their bonds of intimacy, already entangled, become dangerously close, on the line.
$16.99ISBN: 9780743255998Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Touchstone Books - September 1st, 2004The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family.
$13.99ISBN: 9780743227162Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Touchstone Books - November 5th, 2002The bestselling author of Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in this major collection that balances her reader on the magical border of laughter and sorrow.
$25.99ISBN: 9780684872735Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Touchstone - January 16th, 2001The Vision of Emma Blau is the luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy and redemption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember from Stones from the River, flees Burgdorf, a small town in Germany, and comes to America in search of the vision he has dreamed of every night.
$20.95ISBN: 9780684846118Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Touchstone - July 3rd, 1998ISBN: 9780684844824Availability: Special OrderPublished: Simon & Schuster - March 1st, 1997Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman's journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia's mother disappear one day without so much as a word?
$18.99ISBN: 9780684844770Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster - March 1st, 1997From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times).
Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyo$13.99ISBN: 9780684854755Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Touchstone - July 3rd, 1998Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from
$19.95ISBN: 9780684844817Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Touchstone - March 1st, 1997Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling Stones from the River, creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing process but life itself.
$8.99ISBN: 9780375873676Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Yearling - March 12th, 2013The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read.
$21.99ISBN: 9780743230209Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Touchstone Books - April 2nd, 2003Virginia Mendenhall, a Quaker from North Carolina, is thirty-three years old when she travels to the arid plains of eastern Colorado in the mid-1930s to marry Alfred Bowen, ten years her senior. They have met only twice and have come to love each other through letters.
