Sue Miller

Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome bestselling novelist SUE MILLER as she discusses her most recent work, The Lake Shore Limited, in conversation with acclaimed local author MARGOT LIVESEY.

Billy Gertz is a fiercely independent playwright, whose newest drama imagines the story of a man waiting to hear if his estranged wife has survived a cataclysmic event. As her life touches three other unforgettable characters, Billy’s play—the emotion behind its genesis and its powerful performance—forms the thread that binds them all together.

"Ms. Miller does such an adroit job of mapping her characters’ inner lives that we are immersed in their immediate emotional predicaments and also given access to their pasts: the conflicted relationships with parents and siblings that have imprinted their psyches and now inform their relationships with spouses and children, as well as the yearnings, insecurities, habits, and hopes that propel their choices about love and work. What’s more...Ms. Miller gives us a knowing meditation upon the acts of alchemy and theft that constitute an artist’s work: a meditation that sheds light on her own craft, so meticulously showcased in this novel." —The New York Times

"Reading Sue Miller is like watching an invisible painter create a lovely, affecting work in smooth, expert strokes." —The San Francisco Chronicle