From the New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a "devastatingly on target" (Elle) novel about a young woman's accidental death and its effect on her family and friends.For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships and the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara's notion of death was entirely alien to her existence. But when a summer night's drive out for ice cream ends in tragedy, thirty-year-old Sara--"held aloft and shimmering for years"--finally lands. Mining the intricate relationship between love and mourning, acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer explores a single, overriding question: who, finally, "owns" the excruciating loss of this young woman--her mother or her closest friends? Depicting the aftermath of Sara's shocking death with piercing humor and shattering realism, Surrender, Dorothy is the luminously thoughtful, deeply moving exploration of what it is to be a mother and a friend, and, above all, what it takes to heal from unthinkable loss.
Sobre o autor(a)
Wolitzer, Meg
Meg Wolitzer nasceu em 1959 no Brooklyn, Nova York. Filha da romancista Hilma Wolitzer, estudou escrita criativa na Smith College e se formou na Brown University em 1981. É autora de treze romances, incluindo The Wife, adaptado para o cinema em 2017, com Glenn Close no papel principal, The Interestings e o juvenil Redoma. Mora em Manhattan com o marido, o escritor de ciências Richard Panek. |