Téa Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife

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Adult Event

Start: 03/15/2011 7:00 pm

Weaving a brilliant latticework offamily legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The NewYorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spuna timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant,original authors of her generation. In a Balkan country mending fromyears of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission ofmercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she begins to inoculatethe children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secretsgathering everywhere around her. But Natalia is also confronting aprivate, hurtful mystery of her own: the inexplicable circumstancessurrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Thismagnificent debut novel is a triumph, and we here at BookPeoplecannot recommend this book and event more. Cyndi Hughes from theWriters' League of Texas will be leading a conversation with Téaabout the book and writing in general, and we urge you not to missit.