This week's podcast episode features a conversation between bestselling and prizewinning author Joyce Carol Oates and her editor Gabriella Doob. They discuss Joyce's new book Breathe, a novel of love and loss set amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico. In Breathe, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey.
Reviews for Breathe:
“Powerful…. Fecund with fear and anguish, and driven by raw, breathless narration, this hallucinatory tale will not disappoint. Oates is on a roll.”
—Publishers Weekly ⭐ review
—Publishers Weekly ⭐ review
"Gut-wrenching and devoid of sentimentality…. Recommended."
—Library Journal
—Library Journal
Listen to the episode below:
Many thanks to Joyce and Gabriella for this wonderful conversation!
Breathe is on sale August 3, 2021.
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-Lainey