National Book Award Finalist - A superb novel that delicately unearths
the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people,
from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the
winner of the PEN/Malamud Award****
"A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy
and wisdom." --The Washington Post
The Feast of Love is just that--a sumptuous work of fiction about the
thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer
Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates;
parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to
terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones.
In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the
day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection,
while she remembers the women's softball game during which she was
stricken by the beauty of the shortstop. A young couple spends hours at
the coffee shop fueling the idea of their fierce love. A professor of
philosophy, stopping by for a cup of coffee, makes a valiant attempt to
explain what he knows to be the inexplicable workings of the human heart
Their voices resonate with each other--disparate people joined by the
meanderings of love--and come together in a tapestry that depicts the
most irresistible arena of life. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and
power, The Feast of Love is a masterful novel.
