Jane Hamilton on The Phoebe Variations

March 26 | In-Store | 6:00 PM

Jane Hamilton on The Phoebe Variations with Karen Thomson

We are delighted to host , author of The Book of Ruth and Map of the World, who now gives us (Zibby Publishing). This stunning coming-of-age novel about friendship, mothers, and finding one’s way in the world features “Phoebe…the best kind of unreliable narrator: smart, sensitive and always processing something” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Jane will be in conversation with Evanston’s own Karen Thomson. This is a free, ticketed event.

Doors and minibar open at 5:30PM

Getting here: We are located at 1620 Orrington Avenue, in downtown Evanston, just one block east of the Davis Street Metra and CTA public transit stops. There is metered street parking as well as numerous parking garages nearby.

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About the book: Seventeen-year-old Phoebe was never interested in her birth family. But on the cusp of her high school graduation, her adoptive mother, Greta, insists on a visit to meet her biological parents and siblings. The encounter is a jolt, a revelation that derails Phoebe.

With the help of her best friend Luna, Phoebe runs away--as far as their friend Patrick O'Connor's chaotic home, where she hopes to go unnoticed among his thirteen siblings. What begins as an adolescent rebellion soon spirals into a whirlwind of transformation and self-discovery.

As Phoebe grapples with her shifting identity, she must navigate the tumultuous road out of girlhood and chart a new and unknown course.

"The Phoebe Variations is a probing story about the reverberations of adoption, toxic friendship and what it means to be a mother . . . Phoebe is the best kind of unreliable narrator: smart, sensitive and always processing something."

--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

About Jane: Jane Hamilton's novels have won literary prizes, have been made into films, and have been international bestsellers, and two of them, and , were selections of Oprah's Book Club. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times; The Washington Post; Allure; O, The Oprah Magazine; Elle; and various anthologies. She lives on an apple farm in Wisconsin.

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