Boston Book Festival 2018

The four authors who will read from their latest work during this session use literary techniques to ratchet up suspense and keep readers guessing. Karen Day, whose prior work was mostly for young readers, crafts a decidedly adult story in I’ll Stay, which uses a three-part structure to explore episodes of loyalty and guilt over the course of one woman’s life. In Andrea Kleine’s Eden, a woman embarks on a quest to uncover her own lost memories and limited understanding of a failed kidnapping attempt two decades earlier. Debra Jo Immergut, in The Captives, alternates the backstories of a psychologist and his patient to illustrate the dark and twisted pasts that unite them both. And, in Meg Little Reilly’s Everything that Follows, the truth is as murky as the water that swallows one friend during a night of partying that goes horribly awry. Dark nights are coming, and you won’t want to miss this opportunity to hear from a quartet of authors whose suspenseful literary fiction makes perfect fireside reading. Our host is novelist Marjan Kamali, author of Together Tea and one of the curators of the Arlington Author Salon. Sponsored by BookBub.