Boston Book Festival

Three profoundly moving novels map the complex and intimate bonds between parents and children along with the redemptive power of stories that transcend time. Praised by the New York Journal of Books as “fresh and provocative and deep,” Days of Wonder, the latest novel of NY Times bestselling author Caroline Leavitt is a bold, intricately woven story about a young mother who must reinvent her identity to clear her name and search for her lost daughter. Jeanne Blasberg’s Daughter of a Promise is a “sagacious and graceful-modern day retelling of a biblical love story” (Kirkus Reviews) that explores the tensile forces between ambition and desire. Praised  by Booklist as “a deceiving and entrancing tale”, Henriette Lazaridis’ Last Days in Plaka is a deft and layered coming-of-age novel, set in Athens, where a young Greek-American woman’s hunger to belong draws her into a fateful encounter with an aging widow. This session will be moderated by Jessica Keener whose most recent novel, Strangers in Budapest, was praised as a “tense and atmospheric thriller” by the Boston Globe.