Northshire Manchester: Roxana Robinson - Leaving - with Nicole Ihasz

Northshire co-owner Nicole Ihasz will interview Robinson on her novel, an engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves.

“This book will reach inside your chest, wrap itself around your heart, and squeeze.” — Nicole Ihasz

"Warren is the head of an architectural firm in Boston. He has been married for a long time, drifting along with a comfortable wife and the spirited daughter he adores. The reappearance of Sarah, the woman he loved during his college years, makes him reevaluate the way he wants to spend the rest of his life. Warren's wife and daughter, however, aren't going to let him go without making him painfully aware of the cost. This is a tough and unsentimental look at relationships, regrets, and revenge. Strains of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" kept running through my mind." — Alden Graves

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?

“I never thought I’d see you here,” Sarah says. Then she adds, “But I never thought I’d see you anywhere.”

Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites threatening the foundations of their lives. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston. Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in Sarah, who feels emotionally alive for the first time in decades. Still, she hesitates to reclaim a chance at love after her painful divorce and years of framing her life around her children and her work. Warren has no such reservations: he wants to leave his marriage but fears how his wife and daughter will react. As their affair intensifies, Sarah and Warren must confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other. An engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves,

“Leaving is a tour de force—unfailingly clear-eyed, and its final impact shatters." (Washington Post)

Roxana Robinson is the award-winning author of seven novels, three short story collections, and a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City and Connecticut.

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