SOLSTICE

A novel about grown-up love that speaks to readers who long for fiction that reflects the nuance of real relationships.

Boston 1969. Eve, a gifted dancer navigating the shifting cultural tides of the late 1960s. Feeling confined in her identity as wife and mother, she begins an affairfollowed by her husband Gabe's own infidelity. Despite this rupture, the marriage survives.

The novel then moves twenty years forward: Eve is now a choreographer, her children are grown, and the marriage, once seemingly stable, appears to have ended. Or has it? When Eve is commissioned to choreograph a piece based on a new translation of the Adam and Eve story, she is pulled into a reckoning with her past, her love, and her sense of self.

Carol Gilligan's classic work of psychology "In a Different Voice" revolutionized the study of girls, women, and human psychology. She is University Professor at the New York University School of Law. She is the author of the novel Kyra and has co-authored and co-edited a number of books on psychology and women's and girls' development. At Harvard University, where she was the first Graham Professor of Gender Studies, her award-winning research led to the founding of Harvard's Center on Gender and Education. She lives with her husband in New York City and Martha's Vineyard.