THU Nov 9 5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Described by John Updike as an “ambitious, resourceful novelist,” Fernanda Eberstadt is the author of Low Tide, Isaac and His devils, When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth, The Furies, and Rat. The New York Times Book Review praised Rat as “shrewd and sensuous,” hailing “Eberstadt's preoccupation with "the footloose life of the wilfully dispossessed" and writes that "in her novels, idealists and fast trackers wrestle with thorny problems of love and social identity." In 1998, Eberstadt went to live on a vineyard in the French Pyrenees, outside the city of Perpignan. She became friends with a family of French gypsy musicians. Her first work of non-fiction, Little Money Street—In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France, which portrays that friendship, was released by Knopf in March 2006. Eberstadt also writes extensively for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair.
UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.