There are novels, even long ones, you cannot bear to finish because the people and places in them have become so alive in your imagination. So it is with KIRAN DESAI’s stunning novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the story of two indecisive young lovers who meet and part across Europe, India, and the United States. In conversation with JENNY EMERY DAVIDSON, Executive Director of The Community Library in Ketchum, Desai, winner of the 2006 Booker Prize, will talk about Sonia and Sunny and the forces of race, class, and family that tug at them and how she kept faith with a novel that took almost 20 years to write.