From the New York Times bestselling author of "Writers & Lovers" comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, loss, and the lasting impact of first love.
A Cappella Books proudly welcomes acclaimed author Lily King to the Inman Park Church Sanctuary for an evening celebrating her newest novel, “Heart the Lover.” King will appear in conversation with Atlanta’s own Susan Rebecca White, author of “We Are All Good People Here.”
Tickets for this event are available at two tiers:
$31 — Includes admission for one and a signed copy of “Heart the Lover.”
$10 — Admission only; this ticket includes a $10 credit toward the purchase of the book at the event.
Please note: Tickets are non-refundable. If you cannot attend, your $31 bundled ticket still entitles you to a signed copy of the book (if applicable), which we will hold for one month following the event date. You may pick it up in-store or contact us to arrange shipping.
About the Book
You knew I’d write a book about you someday.
Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and their free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.
In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off-campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.
Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, Jordan returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.
Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, "Heart the Lover" is a deeply moving story that celebrates love, friendship, and the transformative nature of forgiveness. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.
About the Author
Lily King is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including "Euphoria" and "Writers & Lovers," 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. She lives in Portland, Maine.
About the Conversation Partner
Susan Rebecca White is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, "Bound South," "A Soft Place to Land," "We Are All Good People Here," and "A Place at the Table." A graduate of Brown University and the MFA program at Hollins University, Susan has taught creative writing at Hollins, Emory, SCAD, and Mercer University, where she was the Ferrol A. Sams, Jr. Distinguished Chair of English Writer-in-Residence. An Atlanta native, Susan lives in Atlanta with her husband and son.
