A conversation with Lily King

Name: A conversation with Lily King
Start: 2025-11-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-10T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121

Schedule

Mon Nov 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121 | South Euclid, OH

Join us at our South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch for a conversation with Lily King, author of "Heart the Lover."
Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/14007585
King is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including "Euphoria" and "Writers & Lovers," and the story collection "Five Tuesdays in Winter." Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Book Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Portland, Maine.
In "Heart the Lover," our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and their free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.
In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.
Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.
📕 Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.