New York Times Bestselling Author
Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels ENVY, THE SEAL WIFE, THE BINDING CHAIR, POISON, EXPOSURE, THICKER THAN WATER and ENCHANTMENTS. She has also written memoirs, THE KISS and THE MOTHER KNOT, a travel memoir, THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO, a biography, SAINT THERESE OF LISIEUX, and a collection of personal essays, SEEKING RAPTURE. Ms. Harrison is a frequent reviewer for THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW; her essays, which have been included in many anthologies, have appeared in THE NEW YORKER, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, VOGUE, O MAGAZINE, SALON, and other publications. Her latest book is ON SUNSET: A Memoir. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children. She is currently working on a novel.
On Sunset
“Stunning… This is Kathryn Harrison in top form.” –Augusten Burroughs
In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author’s upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard — a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic lives.
“Transfixing… Fairy-tale fascinating, profoundly revealing of cultural divisions, and brilliantly and wittily told… Harrison’s entrancing look-back casts light on resonant swaths of history.”
—Donna Seaman, Booklist
“Evocative and tender, this delightful memoir pairs the distant past with a safe and sacred time in the author’s young life.”
—Publishers Weekly