Author Talk: Missing Sam with Thrity Umrigar

From the incisive and bestselling author of Honor and The Museum of Failures, Thrity Umrigar celebrates the recent release of a thrilling and twisty new novel that delivers more of Ms. Umrigar's notable strength in writing complex, intimate, and nuanced characters and relationships. Missing Sam is Ms. Umrigar's first foray into the mystery and thriller genres with a story of a queer marriage under duress from the pressures of contemporary suburban America. After one of the spouses goes missing while out on a morning run, readers exist in suspense wondering whether Sam, who is white, will be found and whether she’s even alive, and why her Muslim wife, Aliya, desperately worried for Sam, is under such suspicion on social media and in her community. Missing Sam is the kind of novel that readers of Thrity Umrigar look for: moving and resonant with rich and conflicted characters, and one that makes us think through our assumptions about each other.

Come to the library for an evening with Ms. Umrigar in conversation with local editor Julie Mosow as they discuss Missing Sam and its current resonances, the writing process, and Ms. Umrigar's long and rich career. There will be time for questions and answers at the end of the event.

Copies of Missing Sam and other works by Ms. Umrigar will be available for sale courtesy of Bronx River Books and for signing by the author. Don't miss this opportunity to meet one of the great authors working in the United States today and add one of her autographed works to your collection!

Light refreshments will be served during this event.

About the author

Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of nine previous novels, including Honor, which was a Reese's Book Club Pick, as well as four picture books and a memoir. Her books have been published in over fifteen countries and in several languages. A former journalist, she has contributed to the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and other newspapers. She is a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard, and winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Seth Rosenberg prize and a Lambda Literary award. She is currently a Distinguished University Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.

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