Loving Violet

By Steven Lewis

A love story told against the backdrop of "the writing life."

Loving Violet is a tight cinematic narrative about conflicting dimensions of love, romantic as well as familial, told against a backdrop of the pleasures and frustrations of "the writing life." A generational sequel to Lewis's Take This, the book follows the late Robert Tevis's grandson Aaron through his entry into a graduate MFA writing program and the arms of the most drop-jaw gorgeous-and disarmingly untethered-girl he has ever known. From there we follow Aaron and Violet as they travel through the intoxicating, absurd, and confounding stages of erotic love, from a fictional Westchester college to a small loft in Brooklyn, the North Fork of Long Island, and, finally, with their newborn Esm , to Central America. In Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, Aaron and Esm establish an unusual extended family life with a unique group of women (his divorced mother, widowed grandmother, his late grandfather's lover, and the grandfather's former hippie caretaker) while Violet travels the globe as a successful writer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930337922
• ISBN13: 9781930337923
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Distribution Partners
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher