Distinguished Writers Series - Adam Haslett

Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Union Atlantic and Imagine Me Gone. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Berlin Prize, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He currently directs the MFA Program at Hunter College in New York.

His new novel, Mothers and Sons, is the story of a New York asylum lawyer caught up in the lives of his clients and the mother from whom he’s estranged, a former minister who now runs a women’s retreat center. The book moves between the immigration courts of Manhattan to an intentional community in Vermont. The Boston Globe calls it “masterful,” and says, “Haslett’s storytelling skill is on quietly magnificent display,” while The Guardian writes, “The echoes of the Russian greats in the title aren’t misplaced – this is an epic family saga that packs an extraordinary emotional punch.”

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