Bestselling author and Long Island native DARIN STRAUSS will speak about and sign his new book, Half a Life.
“Half my life ago, I killed a girl."
So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one high school outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the tragic death of a young girl, and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. In the days, weeks, months, years since this accident, Strauss has struggled to come to terms with what "accident" even means; was it physically possible to avoid his classmate Celine's swerving bike? Was she suicidal? The police had assured him there was nothing he could have done to avoid hitting her, and charges were dropped—but then why were Celine's parents suing him? Now 36 years old and a father, Darin Strauss has lived half his life with the pain and grief of having killed someone. After speaking publicly about the event for the first time on This American Life, Strauss delves even deeper into the meaning and consequences of that fateful day.
Darin Strauss is the international bestselling author of the New York Times Notable books Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy, and the national bestseller More Than It Hurts You. Also a screenwriter, he is adapting Chang and Eng with Gary Oldman, for Disney. The recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU's creative writing program.
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