Don't Be a Stranger A Novel

Susan Minot

eBook - 2024

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening: the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life • A luminous story about erotic obsession, the hunger for intimacy, communication, and oblivion that will appeal to readers of Miranda July's All Fours “Minot exquisitely explores desire and denial, intimacy and illusion in a ravishing, haunting, and insightful tale of sexual ecstasy and emotional torment, integrity and creativity, self and motherhood.” —Booklist (starred review)"Minot’s writing is like a diamond knife on ice.” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winning authorIvy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty ...years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel’s beguiling good looks and quiet intensity... more