It took nearly a decade for acclaimed and best-selling author Jane Hamilton to ferret out her latest novel’s protagonist, Phoebe.
“The Phoebe Variations,” Hamilton’s first book in nine years, was released Sept. 23, and she’ll be at Watermark Books on Monday, Sept. 29, to talk about her book with KMUW podcaster Beth Golay. Hamilton, who has visited Wichita on previous book tours, said she requested the return visit.
“I wrote many different iterations of this book with different plot trajectories, and it kept not working,” said Hamilton, the author of seven previous critically acclaimed novels, including “The Book of Ruth” and “A Map of the World,” which were Oprah Book Club selections and made into movies. She won the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel for “The Book of Ruth.”…