Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her new novel, “Don't Be a Stranger,” centers on the relationship between a younger man and an older single mother. It is a story about erotic obsession, the hunger for intimacy, communication, and oblivion.
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