Winfrey picks Nathan Hill's novel 'Wellness' for book club

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For her latest book club pick, Oprah Winfrey broke the news to author Nathan Hill in modern style.

would sometimes inform the authors by looking up their numbers in the phone book — when phone books were in common use — and calling them up.

“What. A. Book!” Winfrey tells him, adding that the novel made her nostalgic for Chicago, where she used to film her talk show. “You are an incredible writer for our times, what you are able to do with language, with your words. It's so powerful, so moving.”Abraham Verghese's “The Covenant of Water” in May.

“Wellness" is Hill's first book since his acclaimed debut from 2016, “The Nix.” The story of a man's quest to learn more about his long-lost mother, “The Nix” received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best first novel., the online hub of Winfrey's book club, will include additional detail about Hill and his work.

 

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