A Severed Wasp: A Novel

From the Newbery Medal–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, a "soul-satisfying" novel about a retired musician who returns to performing (Norman Lear).

Now in her seventies, Katherine Vigneras, née Forrester, has returned to New York City after a successful career touring as a concert pianist in Europe. Much has changed for Katherine: She is widowed and retired, and has lived through the harrowing years of World War II.

But when she encounters an old face from her youth in Greenwich Village, ...