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Join National Book Award winner Elisa Shua Dusapin for a conversation about The Old Fire, her acclaimed new novel about two estranged sisters, a childhood home, and all that remains unspoken between them.Agathe leaves New York and returns to her home in the French countryside, after fifteen years away.
She and her sister Véra have not seen each other in all those years, and they carry the weight of their own complicated lives. But now their father has died, and they must confront their childhood home on the outskirts of a country estate ravaged by a nearby fire before it is knocked down. They have nine days to empty it. As the pair clean and sift through a lifetime’s worth of belongings, old memories, and resentments surface.
Tender and tense, haunting and evocative, The Old Fire explores the complicated bonds between sisters, the weight of family memory, and the many ways we communicate beyond words, asking whether we can ever really go home again.
The author talk will be followed by an audience Q&A, book signing, and reception.
Elisa Shua Dusapin was born in France and raised in Paris, Seoul, and Switzerland. Her debut novel, Winter in Sokcho, was awarded the Prix Robert Walser, the Prix Régine Desforges, and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature, and her books have been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives between Amman and Switzerland. Her fourth novel, The Old Fire, originally published in French as Le vieil incendie, received the Prix Wepler and Prix Fénéon and was a finalist for the Prix Médicis.
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