The richness, complexity, and evolution of human relationships are the stuff of most fiction, of course, but the three novelists featured in this session place complicated relationships at the very heart of their work. In Sarah Healy’s The Sisters Chase, the bonds of sisterhood take on new urgency when two newly homeless young women embark on a cross-country road trip in the wake of their mother’s death. More than fifteen years ago, Sylvia Brownrigg traced the heady course of a first love affair in her Lambda Award–winning Pages for You; now in Pages for Her, two women who feel like they’ve lived a lifetime since they last met have the opportunity to rekindle their relationship. Finally, if there’s ever a time when family relationships loom large, it’s Thanksgiving; in his latest novel, Start Without Me, Joshua Max Feldman imagines a Thanksgiving-morning encounter between two strangers en route to potentially fraught family gatherings. This session of fiction readings will be hosted by Robin Kall, curator of the Point Street Reading Series and host of the radio program Reading with Robin.
