Novelists Liz Moore and Nellie Hermann

Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome novelists Liz Moore and Nellie Herman for a discussion of their books: THE UNSEEN WORLD and the new-to-paperback edition of THE SEASON OF MIGRATION.

In Moore’s The Unseen World, a girl named Ada is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David’s mysterious history comes into question. When his mind begins to falter, leaving Ada virtually an orphan, she’s taken in by one of David’s colleagues and soon embarks on a mission to uncover her father’s secrets.

Hermann’s The Season of Migration explores the early life of Vincent Van Gogh, a ten-month period in the painter’s youth when he and his brother, Theo, broke off all contact. In The Season of Migration, Nellie Hermann conjures this period in a profoundly imaginative, original, and heartbreaking vision of Van Gogh’s youth, years before he became the artist we know today.