Meet the Author: Maria Semple - GO GENTLE

Maria Semple presents her newest novel, GO GENTLE. This is a ticketed event. Click HERE to register. About GO GENTLE:Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcée, she lives a contented life on New York City’s Upper West Side. Having discovered that the secret to happiness is to desire only what you have, she’s applied this insight to blissful effect: relishing her teenage daughter, the freedom of being solo, and her job as a moral tutor for the twin boys of an old-money family. She’s even assembled a "coven"—like-minded women who live on the same floor in the legendary Ansonia—and is making active efforts to grow its membership. Adora’s carefully curated life is humming along brilliantly until a chance meeting with a handsome stranger.Soon, her ordered world is upended by black-market art deals, secret rendezvous, and international intrigue . . . and her past—which she has worked so hard to bury—lands like a bomb in her present. Inflamed by unquenchable desire, Adora finds herself a woman wanting more: and she’ll risk everything to get it.Adora Hazzard’s journey of self-discovery will grip you from the start. Romantic, hilarious, intelligent, and bursting with the stuff of life, Go Gentle is a thrilling story of one woman’s mid-life transformation, cementing Maria Semple in the pantheon of our most exciting and important contemporary writers. About Maria Semple:Maria Semple is the bestselling author of TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT, WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, and THIS ONE IS MINE. Her novels have been translated into forty languages. Before turning to fiction, she wrote for the television shows Arrested Development, Ellen, and Mad About You. She lives in New York.Huge thanks to The Novel Neighbor for partnering with us on this event!Search the Library Catalog to find more books by Maria Semple