JOYCE MAYNARD

Best-selling author Joyce Maynard will read from her new novel, Labor Day, a compassionate, evocative, and exquisitely-rendered novel of childhood and discovery, innocence and love, betrayal, and its haunting consequences

In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and Nick Hornby's "About a Boy," acclaimed author Joyce Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy--and the man he later becomes--looking back at an unexpected encounter that begins one single long, hot, life-altering weekend.