Literature

Class by Lucinda Rosenfeld
   in conversation with Deborah Treisman

Tuesday, October 24
8:00 PM

Book reading and signing

Class, published in 2017, is Lucinda Rosenfeld’s fifth novel. She’s been turning the lives of her generation into fiction since her first novel, What She Saw..., was published to wide critical acclaim.   
   In Class, Rosenfeld looks at a Brooklyn mother who sends her eight-year-old daughter to public school. Karen Kipple’s values are impeccably liberal: she works for a non-profit organization, Hungry Kids, and her husband is a low-income-housing advocate. She is challenged by the realities of class and race that she encounters. Class and race are “bravely tackled by the author,” Sarah Lyall wrote in The New York Times. Karen’s life is a minefield in which she makes decisions and then considers and reconsiders their repercussions. Rosenfeld’s satire is both sharp and sensitive. We don’t always like Karen, but we admire her relentless self-examination even as we are amused by it.
   Deborah Treisman is the fiction editor of The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Fiction podcast.

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