September 10, 2025
Less than two years after the publication of her critically acclaimed novel “Inverno,” the poet Cynthia Zarin has written a follow-up to be published in November. Zarin is a senior lecturer in the English department, in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
In “Estate” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Zarin revisits Caroline, the central character and narrator in “Inverno,” as she reaches middle age. Involved in a new relationship, Caroline explores questions of desire and deception, loss, absence and disappearance, and examines the stories we tell ourselves and others.
“Inverno,” Zarin’s first novel, was widely praised by critics. One reviewer, in The New York Times, highlighted its “allusive, evocative” prose, saying “there is not a banal sentence or purple patch to be found in this book, which only a poet could have written.”
Zarin, the recipient of numerous literary awards, is the author of five books of poetry and a collection of essays.
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