Racing Towards Wonder with bestselling novelist Jane Smiley

Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

English - December 10, 2020 13:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley was determined to release her latest novel in 2020. Why? She knew we all could use an escape. And Perestroika in Paris is just that, as praised by Publishers Weekly: “the perfect book for those for whom the real world, wracked with pandemic and politics, has become something to avoid.” Imagine a Parisian fairytale for adults starring a runaway racehorse who finds friendship and freedom in getting splendidly off-track in the City of Light. In conversation with Brooke Warner.