Author Amity Gaige Presents "Heartwood"

A Read with Jenna pick and instant national bestseller, this literary thriller takes readers on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team races against time after a woman mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail. Hear author Amity Gaige discuss her new novel, Heartwood, in conversation with Daisy Alpert Florin. 

Amity Gaige is the author of four previous novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, and Sea Wife. Sea Wife was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Mark Twain American Voice Award. Schroder was also a New York Times Notable Book and a best book of 2013 according to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, among others, and was shortlisted for UK’s Folio Prize in 2014. In 2018, Amity was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her family and teaches creative writing at Yale.

Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year, attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She is a recipient of the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College and was a 2019–20 fellow in the BookEnds novel revision fellowship, where she worked with founding director Susan Scarf Merrell. A native New Yorker, Florin lives in Connecticut with her family. 

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