Barbara Kingsolver: Partita

Barbara Kingsolver will be at Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) on Thursday, October 29, at 7 PM, in conversation with Anna Singer. The evening centers on her novel Partita, which follows Livia Cable, whose life is upended by a call from an old lover she knew as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student and extraordinary pianist. From there, the story works through class barriers, the risks of ambition, and the life-changing power of art.

Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize winner who has written ten bestselling works of fiction, including Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible. She also co-authored the children's book Coyote's Wild Home with Lily Kingsolver, and wrote Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Her writing has been translated into more than thirty languages.

She's a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Demon Copperhead, as well as the National Humanities Medal and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia. The talk is part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures '10 Evenings' series.

The event is at Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland), 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213, on Thursday, October 29, at 7 PM. Tickets are sold out, though a waitlist is available.