Someone Else Is Waiting For Me, Elsewhere

A dazzling “true novel” about the final great love affair of Marguerite Yourcenar

In the early 1980s, all eyes are on Marguerite Yourcenar. The celebrated author of Memoirs of Hadrian has become the first woman elected to the Académie française, achieving a level of literary consecration few writers ever attain. Yet behind the public figure lies a woman entering the last chapter of her life: aging, grieving the slow loss of her longtime companion Grace Frick, and increasingly isolated in he...