Authors Cara Hoffman, Andre Aciman and Elif Batuman talk about love at the Brooklyn Book Festival
September 17, 2017 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Cara Hoffman reads an excerpt from her novel “Running” at the Brooklyn Book Festival. At left, that's novelist Andre Aciman; novelist Elif Batuman and panel moderator Parul Sehgal are at right. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan
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Sooo many love stories are about a woman being saved by a man or a woman saving a man.
Neither of these story lines appeals to novelist Cara Hoffman.
“I’m more interested in writing against the idea of heteronormativity,” Hoffman said at the Brooklyn Book Festival Sunday.