Author: Alice McDermott
Moderator: Susan Isaacs
Award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alice McDermott makes a special visit to Long Island to discuss her critically acclaimed new novel, Absolution. The wives of the Vietnam War take center stage in this poignant novel about two women whose marital duties to their soldier husbands in Saigon resonate sixty years later as they discover how their lives as women on the periphery—of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands’ convictions—have been shaped and burdened by the same consequences that followed America’s interference in Southeast Asia.
Book Tickets are available for this event and include a copy of Absolution. Book Ticket holders are given priority access to seating and the signing line at this session. Free seat tickets are available and are granted secondary access to the seating and signing line.