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Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita Arrives
By The Northstar Desk, Newsroom
· 2 min read
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Barbara Kingsolver releases Partita today, October 6, 2026.
The novel follows Livia Cable, a former piano prodigy whose quiet life in rural Tennessee is disrupted by a call from a former lover.
The story explores ambition, music, memory, love and the changing meaning of artistic success.
October 6 brings a major wave of new releases, including fiction from Barbara Kingsolver, V. E. Schwab, Imbolo Mbue, Jeffrey Archer and Tessa Bailey.
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