Don't Be a Stranger (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780593688489)

A mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life

Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel's beguiling good looks and quiet intensity instantly seduce her. Despite the gulf between their ages and experience the physical chemistry between them is overpowering, and over the heady weeks and months that follow Ivy finds her life bifurcated by his presence: On the surface she is a responsible mother, managing the demands of friends, an ex-husband, home; but emotionally, psychologically, sexually, she is consumed by desire and increasingly alive only in the stolen moments-out-of -time, with Ansel in her bed.

In spellbinding prose, Susan Minot has crafted a luminous novel about erotic obsession, and the hunger for intimacy, communication, oblivion. Don't Be a Stranger is a gripping, sensual, and provocative work from one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary fiction.

Author: Susan Minot
ISBN-10: 0593688481
ISBN-13: 9780593688489
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2025
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.63d