Oblong Online: Roxana Robinson, LEAVING: A Novel, in conversation with Dani Shapiro

Presented by Oblong Books in partnership with The White Hart Inn & Scoville Memorial Library.

Leaving charts a passage through loyalty and desire as it builds to a shattering conclusion, in Roxana Robinson's boldest and most powerful work to date.

Roxana Robinson is the award-winning author of six novels and three short story collections. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, and other publications. She lives in New York City and Connecticut, spends as much time as she can in Maine, and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College.

Dani Shapiro is a best-selling novelist and memoirist and host of the podcast Family Secrets (now in its seventh season). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Time. She has taught at Columbia and New York University and is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference. She lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut.