Sat. May 2, 2026
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM ET
$20
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Four women, each framed in a colorful circle (yellow, purple, pink, blue), pose and smile against a black background with a neon green band at the top and a pink band at the bottom.

Past Lives/ Present Loves

Love may spring eternal, but can it transcend the constraints of history, grief, and who we once were?

The characters in Eimear McBride’s The City Changes Its Face, Denne Michelle Norris’s When the Harvest Comes, and Aja Gabel’s Lightbreakers find the bounds of their relationships stretched to hold the weight of past lives. 

Join us for a discussion with these three writers whose novels ask how couples make room for past lovers, old wounds, and hidden longings. Moderated by Fanta Diallo, Senior Publicist at W.W. Norton & Company.