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Prairie Lights invites you to join Jane Hamilton, beloved author of Map of the World and Book of Ruth, as she reads from her newest novel, The Phoebe Variations.

Described in a Kirkus review as "a young woman searches for a self," The Phoebe Variations is praised by Kirkus as "an empathetic chronicle, both tender and comical," and it tells the coming-of-age story of Phoebe Hudson, a young woman who meets her biological parents at the urging of her adopted mother and soon after flees the home she's known in a state of uncertainty and betrayal.

Jane Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's magazine. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club. Her second novel, A Map of the World, was an international bestseller (janehamiltonbooks.com).