november, 2026
Event Details
Join us for a book presentation with Xita Rubert, author of The Key Biscayne Affair, winner of the 2024 Herralde Novel Prize and translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches. Riley will moderate the conversation.
In this unsettling coming-of-age novel, a Spanish philosophy professor takes his two children from Boston to an island off Miami. As their father becomes absorbed in its glamorous social world, his daughter looks back on a childhood shaped by reckless behavior, divided loyalties, and the uneasy boundaries between love and control. Rubert explores the stories we tell about our families and the memories that resist a simple explanation.
Xita Rubert is a Spanish novelist. In 2024, she won the Herralde Novel Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes for the novel in the Spanish language, for The Key Biscayne Affair. Her first novel, My Days with the Kopp Family, was translated into several languages. She is based in New York and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University.
Author photo: M. Fonti. Book cover: Ecco.
