Labyrinth Books, the Princeton Public Library, and the Lewis Center for the Arts present a reading and a conversation between award winning novelist and Lecturer in Creative Writing Daphne Kalotay and celebrated author Suzy Hansen. Kalotay’s new book, Blue Hours, links Manhattan circa 1991 to eastern Afghanistan in 2012. Hansen is author of Notes on a Foreign County, which tells the story of an American abroad in the era of American decline.
Blue Hours tells of a life-changing friendship between two memorable heroines. Anchored by an uninvited voyage into an extraordinary place, with a love story at its core, it combines the adventure and moral complexity of Lillian Hellman’s Julia and Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder to tell a global story at an intimate level. In its ethical provocations, Blue Hours becomes an unconventional page-turner, confronting Americas role in the conflicted, interconnected world.
Daphne Kalotay is the award-winning author of Calamity and Other Stories, Russian Winter, and Sight Reading. She teaches in the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Suzy Hansen is the author of Notes on a Foreign Country, which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. She is a writer for the New York Times Magazine.
