A tangle of unhappy marriages. A professor trying to write away heartbreak but thwarted by the early stage of Alzheimer’s only to discover that her husband has stolen her manuscript and published it as his own. Another professor obsessed with a horrifically injured shelter dog.
Julie Orringer’s Luna, Phoenix, Queen, a tale of infidelity, plagiarism and devastating disease, is told by a chorus of voices over four decades and 4,000 miles in a tour de force about vulnerability, helplessness and the mysteries beneath the surface of our world.
The author of The Invisible Bridge, Orringer is an award-winning short story writer.
Sponsored by The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Authors’ Series, honoring Theodore and Caroline Newhouse and Susan Newhouse