Julie Orringer at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes Julie Orringer —author of three award-winning books: How to Breathe Underwater , The Invisible Bridge , and T he Flight Portfolio , which was the basis for the 2023 Netflix series Transatlantic —for a discussion of her new novel, Luna, Phoenix, Queen . She will be joined in conversation by Jayne Anne Phillips —author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Night Watch . About Luna, Phoenix, Queen A spellbinding tour de force from the bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge —a novel about varieties of infidelity, the provenance of a literary masterpiece, and the power of storytelling to shape identity and destiny. Dava and Barr Pennington, professors at a Midwestern university, both harbor potent secrets. Fiction writing is his specialty; English literature is hers. But Dava is unhappy in their marriage, and secretly in love with a colleague, Svetlana White, who teaches in the Russian Studies department; spurred by their complicated liaison, she spends her nights working on a novel about two women who run a domestic violence shelter in coastal Maine. Though she loves the work and the refuge it provides, the writing becomes increasingly difficult as her…