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Join the Watchung Booksellers Podcast for a live recording of a book club discussion about Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt led by Alice Elliott Dark and Dagmara Domińczyk.
About the event:
As the Watchung Booksellers Podcast turns one, we celebrate our love of books and community with a live recording in the Kids' Room! Authors and book lovers Alice Elliott Dark and Dagmara Domińczyk discuss the book everyone is talking about, Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt. The buzz has been spreading about this book throughout Lit Hub, the New York Times, and our own customers. It's been one of Marni and Kathryn's favorite handsells and we can't wait to discuss it with you all!
The ticket costs $25 and includes light fare. The book must be purchased separately--copies are available at watchungbooksellers.com.
About the book:
With her daughter in the throes of drug addiction, a mother takes over the care of her granddaughter—and is transformed by the bond that forms between them—in this warm, sharp-witted, and psychologically acute story of familial love by a praised British novelist.
Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, who is addicted to drugs, has just had a baby, Lily. Ruth adjusts herself in ways large and small to give to Eleanor what she thinks she may need—nourishment, distance, affection—but all her gifts fall short. After someone dies of an overdose in Eleanor's apartment, Ruth hands her daughter an envelope of cash and takes Lily home with her, and Lily, as she grows, proves a compensation for all of Ruth's past defeats and disappointment. Love without fear is a new feeling for her, almost unrecognizable. Will it last?
Love and Missed is a whip-smart, incisive, and mordantly witty novel about love's gains and missteps. British writer Susie Boyt's seventh novel, and the first to be published in the United States, is a triumph.
About the author:
Susie Boyt is the author of six novels and the memoir My Judy Garland Life, which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize, staged at the Nottingham Playhouse, and serialized on BBC Radio 4. She has written about art, life, and fashion for the Financial Times for many years and recently edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James. She is also a director at the Hampstead Theatre. She lives in London with her family.
About the book club moderators:
Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England, as well as two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry: Prize Stories, among others. Her award-winning story “In the Gloaming” was made into two films and was chosen for inclusion in Best American Stories of the Century. Dark is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is a professor at Rutgers-Newark in the English department and MFA program.
Dagmara Domińczyk was born in Kielce, Poland and emigrated to the United States at the age of seven. She has starred in films, television, and on/off Broadway for the past twenty years. She released her first novel, The Lullaby of Polish Girls in 2013. Her essays have appeared in Huffington Post, Fodor’s and most recently in the book Pretty Bitches, edited by Lizzie Skurnick. She is currently working on finishing her second novel and lives in Montclair with her husband and two sons.
