Acclaimed novelist Jane Hamilton is the author of the PEN/Hemingway Award winner The Book of Ruth and the New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Map of the World, both of which selected for Oprah’s Book Club. The Washington Post chose her novel When Madeline Was Young as a Best Book of 2006. In her new book, Laura Rider’s Masterpiece, Le Divorce meets The Love Letter as Hamilton concocts a comedic tale of sex, manipulation, and delusions of grandeur in small town America.