Partita by Barbara Kingsolver

Format & Condition: Hardcover, New

Genre: Literary Fiction

A phone call from an old lover unsettles the quiet life Livia Cable has built in the farm country where she grew up. His request to see her again draws her back to her years as a gifted conservatory pianist, forcing her to revisit the love, losses, and choices that changed the course of her life.

An October 2026 Read With Jenna selection, Partita is the new novel from Barbara Kingsolver, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Demon Copperhead. I recommend it for its exploration of artistic ambition, class, and the lives we might have lived, with the kind of emotional complexity that makes a rewarding book-club discussion.