Join us for Book Club at Bedford Books on Tuesday March 17 at 6:30pm to discuss The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. There will be lively discussion, questions posed and answered and time to connect with fellow YS Members.

This is a zero pressure book club – didn’t quite finish the book? Come anyway.

Hosted by Fran Hauser & Emily Winograd Leonard

Light refreshments will be available.

Member RSVP required.

This book is available for purchase at Bedford Books! You can also purchase the book on the Bedford Books website here and have it shipped to you.

About the Book

Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.

Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.

Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.

About the Author
Virginia Evans is the debut author of the epistolary novel The Correspondent, known for subtly exploring connection and small-life expansion, having written it during the pandemic from her closet in Winston-Salem, NC, after earning degrees in English literature and creative writing from James Madison University and Trinity College.