Award-winning author and University alumnus Daniel Mendelsohn read excerpts from his memoir, "The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity," at the University Bookstore Wednesday night.
According to English Prof. Jahan Ramazani, who attended the University with Mendelsohn as an undergraduate student, Mendelsohn's book reflects upon his experience as a gay man coming into his own sense of identity at the University.
"He loves the University and had a great experience here," Ramazani said. "I think he is giving expression to finding a way of describing a complex experience that hasn't been put into glorious literary form yet."
The book, which focuses on homosexuality, fatherhood, Greek art and family history, was recently recognized as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, according to a University press release.
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