Disturbances in the Field A Novel

As a child, Lydia Rowe developed clear and distinct ideas about what made for the harmonious life. As a grown woman, married to an artist, in close contact with friends she's had since college, mother of four children, and engaged in her career as a pianist, she seems to have achieved that harmony; her life has the order, balance and complexity of the classical trios she loves to play. Until one day when two policemen arrive at her door, and with a few words turn her delicately calibrated existence into complete disarray. In a novel of captivating realism, Lynne Sharon Schwartz explores tragic loss and broken faith, the disconnect between one's expectations of life and what one gets. Disturbances in the Field is deeply engrossing, richly told, and uncommonly astute. Book jacket.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of nineteen books, including Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), Rough Strife (nominated for the PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award). She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She lives in New York City.