Lemon Drop Falls

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.<BR><BR>“One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed<BR><BR>A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century<BR><BR>With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her troubles with an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes; and much more.<BR><BR>Clark’s clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath’s suicide promote a deeper understanding of her final days. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark’s meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.

An exhilarating debut novel about a life-changing romance in the long shadow of European history, inspired by the author's real discovery<BR><BR>'Stunningly good' Julia Boyd<BR>'You won't be able to put it down' Samantha Rose Hill<BR>'Worthy of reading and rereading' Bookpage<BR><BR>Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she falls in love with Christoph, a German student visiting campus. As she visits Christoph in Germany and tries to understand the young, elegant man who fascinates her, he reveals his country to her.<BR><BR>Germany is still reckoning with the Holocaust and its pretty new squares belie the war's destruction. Anna wants to believe in Christoph and the future he promises her but as their relationship becomes increasingly unsettling, she must face up to everything she has been unwilling to see, and everything Christoph has chosen to ignore.<BR><BR>'As if a Sally Rooney novel merged with Richard Linklater's film, Before Sunrise' Booklist<BR><BR>'A swiftly-moving, molecularly perceptive, singular portrait of intoxicating young love' Aube Rey Lescure<BR><BR>'An elegant, unsettling novel about the burden of history and the illusions of love' Sana Krasikov<BR><BR>'A masterpiece' Rebecca Donner