Please join us for a reading and conversation with Lee Cole to celebrate the release of his new novel Groundskeeping

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Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn, says of the book, “Scrupulously perceptive . . . Groundskeeping is filled with close observation, detailed shading. It is an absorbing love story, but it is also an examination of class in America, and it captures with sharp insight a moment in recent history.”

Lee Cole was born and grew up in rural Kentucky. A recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he now lives in New York.

Sarah Thankam Mathews grew up between Oman and India, immigrating to the United States at seventeen. She is a recipient of a Best American Short Stories 2020 award and fellowships from the Asian American Writers Workshop and the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her first novel, All This Could Be Different is forthcoming from Viking in August 2022.