Jean Hanff Korelitz, Author of 'You Should Have Known,' to Speaks at Darien Library

Jean Hanff Korelitz will be at Darien Library at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, as part of the library’s “Meet the Author” series to read from and sign her New York Times bestselling novel You Should Have Known, which is about to be published in paperback.

From Darien Library’s announcement: “Books will be available for purchase at this event. Refreshments will be served. Additional parking for evening and weekend Library programs available on Thorndal Circle (behind Nielsen’s).”

About the Book

Here’s a description of the book from the publisher:

“Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the quintessential Upper East Side private school she herself once attended.

“Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations.

“Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.”

About the Author

Also from the pubisher:

“Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of one book of poems, The Properties of Breath, and four previous novels, Admission, A Jury of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River and The White Rose, as well as a novel for children, Interference Powder.

“She has also published essays in the anthologies Modern Love and Because I Said So, and in the magazines Vogue, Real Simple, More, Newsweek, Organic Style, Travel & Leisure (Family), and others.

“Jean’s novel Admission was made into a feature film starring Tina Fey & Paul Rudd in 2013. Jean runs BOOKTHEWRITER, a service that enables book groups in New York City to invite an author to take part in their discussions (www.bookthewriter.com).

“She lives in Manhattan with her husband (Irish poet Paul Muldoon, poetry editor at The New Yorker and Princeton poetry professor) and two children.”