Katharine Dion

whose debut novel, The Dependents, was published in June by Little, Brown.

INTRODUCED BY

Adam Haslett author of three books, including the novel Imagine Me Gone, published by Little, Brown in 2016.

Katharine Dion’s excellent debut novel, , is about a recent widower coming inexorably to terms with the ways he misunderstood both his wife of many decades and his grown daughter, with whom he must now try to reconcile as his only remaining family. It is a subtly written, slowly building, and emotionally forceful story that dramatizes, in bracingly unsentimental fashion, how love and blindness can so often be conjoined. Dion was born in Oakland, California, and received