Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars must be the most accidentally timely novel of the year. Although completed before the current pandemic, it is set in a Dublin maternity ward in 1918 during the Great Flu. Fear and camaraderie combine in a story narrated by a nurse whose experiences mirror those of our current front-line workers. Best known for her international best-seller Room, she discusses her novel with Bill Goldstein, editor of the New York Times books website and book critic for the weekend edition of WNBC’s Today in New York.
This event will be brought to you with the generous support of Bonnie and Peter McCausland & The McCausland Foundation.