Sharon Solwitz's guest appearances

Sharon Solwitz

New Books in Literature

New Books Network

New Books in Arts & Letters

Emily Dickinson

Zadie Smith

Matt Bell

Tom Sleigh

Phillipa Chong

David Rosen

James Franco

James Rollins

Octavia Randolph

James Rosone

Eliot Peper

Karen Hugg

Jason Brown

Seanan McGuire

Michelle Kuo

OwlTail

Sharon Solwitz‘s novel, Once, in Lourdes (Spiegel &amp; Grau, 2017), is the story of four close friends in the fictional town of Lourdes, Michigan, who decide, during the summer before their senior year of high school, to make a suicide pact. The four friends are all struggling with something beyond normal adolescent angst–Kay is tormented by her weight and the new stepfamily she acquired after her mother’s death; CJ hides who he really is even from the friends; Saint struggles not to destroy everyone around him; and Vera is horrified by a shameful secret.  The two weeks of the pact take place during the tumultuous summer of 1968. As the ground shifts beneath them, the four friends confront who they are and what the world means to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

<a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/directory/?p=Sharon_Solwitz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sharon Solwitz</a>‘s novel, <a href="http://aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com/x/c/QqUuW6LW4vGDIzbDc7EzOxUAAAFkw944hAEAAAFKAaMn7JM/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812989236/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=0812989236&amp;linkCode=w61&amp;imprToken=1uQ4G-etPGUK1PKKV5xCiA&amp;slotNum=0&amp;tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Once, in Lourdes</a> (Spiegel &amp; Grau, 2017), is the story of four close friends in the fictional town of Lourdes, Michigan, who decide, during the summer before their senior year of high school, to make a suicide pact. The four friends are all struggling with something beyond normal adolescent angst–Kay is tormented by her weight and the new stepfamily she acquired after her mother’s death; CJ hides who he really is even from the friends; Saint struggles not to destroy everyone around him; and Vera is horrified by a shameful secret.  The two weeks of the pact take place during the tumultuous summer of 1968. As the ground shifts beneath them, the four friends confront who they are and what the world means to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature</a>

Sharon Solwitz, “Once, in Lourdes” (Spiegel & Grau, 2017)