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Joyce Maynard: The Bird Hotel 8/11/23
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- Over her fifty-year career, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard has published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the memoir "At Home in the World" and the novels "To Die For" and "Labor Day," both adapted for film.
- Maynard’s newest novel, "The Bird Hotel," was published on May 2, 2023.
- About "The Bird Hotel": After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano. "The Bird Hotel" tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With a mystery at its center and filled with warmth, drama, romance, humor, pop culture, and a little magical realism, The Bird Hotel has all the hallmarks of a Joyce Maynard novel that have made her a leading voice of her generation.
- "The Bird Hotel" is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades, offering lyricism as well as whimsy. While the world New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard brings to life on the page is rendered from her imagination, it’s one informed by the more than twenty years of which she has spent a significant amount of her time in a small Mayan indigenous village in Guatemala.
- "How the Light Gets In," the sequel to her novel, "Count the Ways"—winner of the Grand Prize for an American novel published in France and named an Amazon Best Book in 2021—will be published in summer, 2024.
- Maynard is a fellow of Macdowell and Yaddo. Every winter for over two decades, she has led the Lake Atitlan Memoir workshop, Write by the Lake, in Guatemala.
- Maynard also speaks with her sister, Rona, who is the author of a recent memoir, "Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World," an irresistible tale of reluctant dog ownership full of heart, humor, and wisdom.
- For more information go to joycemaynard.com. Follow Joyce Maynard on Instagram @therealjoycemaynard and on Facebook @JoyceMaynardAuthor. Rona Maynard, https://ronamaynard.com/.
Production Date:
Friday, August 11, 2023 - 05:00
