Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Large Meeting Room — 80 Washington St., Winchester, MA
Tony Corsentino, Winchester librarian, will join author, poet, and musician Kailee Pedersen for a conversation about her new novel The Minimalist . In what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging discussion, they will explore the ways that her experience as an intercountry adoptee from China informs her creative outlook. This is the second adoptee author event at the Library for Tony, following his conversation in April 2024 with Susan Kiyo Ito about her memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere . About the book : For fans of Tár and The Piano Teacher, this gruesome and unsettling psychological drama is a darkly lucid portrait of a classical composer’s descent into madness. As the last and greatest student of famed minimalist composer Ryder Wakefield, Mia Voss’s rise to prominence in the insular world of classical music has long been assured. When Ryder dies unexpectedly, she inherits everything—including the unfinished manuscript of his final composition, the mysterious Death Fugue: Music for Orchestra. Haunted by memories of her tragic romance with Ryder’s late son, Oliver—like Mia, an Asian American adoptee—Mia leaves her girlfriend behind and returns to Ryder’s home to finish his…