Hancock author Larry Duberstein’s new novel, “The Hospice Singer,” is about hospice singing and home-visit concerts for the dying, as the backdrop for his new novel.
Duberstein will be at The Toadstool Bookshop at 12 Depot Square in Peterborough on at 11 a.m. Saturday May 14, to discuss and sign copies of the book. “The Hospice Singer” explores the hidden complexities of life in small-town America when a surprising relationship develops between one of the singers, 66-year-old Ian Nelson, and a beautiful young woman, Anita Richardson, to whom his choir sings. Nelson, retired from a career as a high school guidance counselor, long married and the father of two, considers himself an ordinary man. Meeting Richardson threatens it all, as his attraction and connection to this much-younger woman – who, to complicate matters, is dying – upends his quiet New England life.
Duberstein is also the author of “The Marriage Hearse,” a New York Times New & Noteworthy selection, and “The Handsome Sailor,” a New York Times Notable Book. More recently he self-published “Five Bullets,” a World War II story. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated with honors from Wesleyan University and was a Harvard Prize Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Since leaving academia, he has held parallel careers as an author and a builder, having published 10 volumes of fiction and dozens of essays and short stories, and having built and remodeled hundreds of houses.
This event is free and all are welcome. For information, call the bookstore at 603-924-3543.