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Please RSVP with both the bookstore (link below) and here on Meetup.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lily-king-author-of-heart-the-lover-an-in-person-boswell-event-tickets-1467057451329?aff=oddtdtcreator

We'll coordinate carpooling & possibly having dinner beforehand closer to the event date.

Boswell hosts an evening with Lily King, the New York Times bestselling author of novels including Euphoria and Writers & Lovers. King visits with her latest, Heart the Lover, a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love.

In their last year of college, three students meet in a 17th-Century Lit class, and in their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games, a charged and intricate triangle forms. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever. Written with King's superb wit and emotional sensitivity, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving love story that celebrates literature, forgiveness, and the transformative bonds that shape our lives.

From Daniel Goldin: "A young woman discovers the joy of intellectual stimulation (so many books!) with two newfound college friends, but soon the relation morphs to a complicated triangle of friendship and desire. Each of them – Sam, Yash, and Jordan, nicknamed such because she’s no Daisy Buchanan – will make choices, many of them bad, that will have repercussions years later. Lily King’s writing is so direct and piercing – even a seemingly silly card game can bring dramatic tension. Plus, the book packs an emotional wallop – I dare you not to weep at the end!"

Lily King is author of six novels and the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Book Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Award.

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