{"id":74095,"date":"2019-04-10T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T01:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=74095"},"modified":"2019-04-10T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T01:28:30","slug":"emotionally-engaging-suspenseful-new-novel-by-nell-freudenberger-will-be-featured-on-thacker-mountain-radio-april-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/emotionally-engaging-suspenseful-new-novel-by-nell-freudenberger-will-be-featured-on-thacker-mountain-radio-april-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotionally Engaging, Suspenseful New Novel by Nell Freudenberger Will Be Featured on Thacker Mountain Radio April 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prodimage.images-bn.com\/cimages\/0000002926501_p0_v1_s260x185.jpg?resize=247%2C347&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"347\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Lost and Wanted<\/em> <\/strong>is an emotionally engaging, suspenseful new novel from the best-selling author, told in the voice of a renowned physicist: an exploration of female friendship, romantic love, and parenthood\u2014bonds that show their power in surprising ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen Clapp&#8217;s breakthrough work on black holes in five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain terms. Helen is skeptical, even contemptuous, of anything remotely pseudo-scientific. So it&#8217;s particularly vexing when, early one morning, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The friend is Charlie Boyce, Helen&#8217;s roommate at Harvard, who turned away from a potentially brilliant life in academia for a career in TV writing in Los Angeles, in part because of the unwanted attention she received from a star professor. Charlie and Helen would confide in each other about their children; about their respective careers in boys&#8217; club professions, and, in Charlie&#8217;s case, in an industry that pigeonholed her because she was black. But as the years passed, Charlie became more elusive; her calls came less and less often. She became ill. And now she is permanently, tragically gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Helen is drawn back into Charlie&#8217;s orbit, and into the feelings she once had for a scientific competitor on the verge of a Nobel Prize-winning discovery, she is forced to question the laws of the universe that always steadied her mind and heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funny, wise, sharply perceptive, taking us from the storied campuses of Cambridge to Hollywood and back, <em>Lost and Wanted<\/em> is a moving story of friends and lovers, lost and found, at the most defining moments of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nell Freudenberger<\/strong> is the author of the novels\u00a0<em><strong>The Newlyweds<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>The Dissident<\/strong><\/em>, and the story collection\u00a0<em><strong>Lucky Girls<\/strong><\/em>, winner of the PEN\/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library, she lives in Brooklyn with her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost and Wanted is an emotionally engaging, suspenseful new novel from the best-selling author, told in the voice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":74392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[14290,14289,846,14292,14291],"class_list":["post-74095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-lost-and-wanted","tag-nell-freudenberger","tag-thacker-mountain-radio","tag-the-dissident","tag-the-newlyweds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-10-Lost-and-Wanted.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}