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From the award-winning author of In the Field, an inquiry into grief, love, housing affordability, and the...
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From the award-winning author of In the Field, an inquiry into grief, love, housing affordability, and the transformative power of art, in the story of a young theater director who, after her mother's death, stages Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in her childhood home.
Gwen Rivlin moves back home to Philadelphia in the wake of her mother's death, and into the big, shabby house with a turret where they both grew up. Her friends tell her it's too expensive for a 27-year-old theater director, and too suburban if she has any hopes of keeping her social life alive.
Gwen is determined to stay, even when her schemes to make the house more affordable run afoul of the single-family zoning laws and earn the disapproval of her neighbors. To smooth things over, and to assuage her own grief, Gwen stages a production of The Cherry Orchard inside the turret house. She casts friends, coworkers from the local coffee shop, and various community members in Anton Chekhov's play about a family struggling to hold onto its own real estate.
Through the creation of this beautiful and transitory work of art, Gwen heals old breaches, reevaluates her relationship with her difficult mother, and weaves a new, non-traditional family for herself.
Author: Rachel Pastan
Publisher: Delphinium Books
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781953002778
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/27/2026
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2026
Library Journal 07/17/2026 pg. 1
About the Author
Rachel Pastan's novel, In
the Field, based on the life of
Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, won the inaugural Science +
Literature award from the National Book Foundation in 2022. She has also
published three other novels: Alena, Lady
of the Snakes, and This Side of Married. She is the literary director of Celia
Bookshop in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and former chair of Swarthmore's housing
affordability task force.
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