Please join librarian David Sadoff (filling in for Nancy until she gets back in April) in the Scott Room to discuss Leaving by Roxana Robinson on Wednesday March 19 at 2 pm.
"Forty years after their breakup, lovers run into each other at intermission in the opera house, and nothing will ever be the same.
"Warren Jennings and Sarah Watson dated in their youth, but between the miles separating their colleges, a silly but fatal misunderstanding, and a new face on the horizon, she chose to end the relationship. By the time they reconnect, he is long married, living near Boston, a successful architect. She is divorced, a grandmother, on her own in Westchester County. After they serendipitously meet at a performance of Tosca in New York City, the error of their separation is quickly evident and they begin an affair. To them, it feels less like adultery than a course correction, likely to lead to the greater happiness of all. But as Warren will one day explain to his wife, Janet, “In an opera, the tragedy involves passion and honor,” and so it is here, with passion and honor at odds, and the irrevocable responsibilities and emotions of parenthood complicating the situation in unforeseen ways....
"Elegantly structured and written, shimmering with feeling and truth. A triumph" - Kirkus.
