Russell Banks, the acclaimed author whose works include Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift, will read from and sign his new novel The Reserve. Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness - and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules.