louisa: the extraordinary life of mrs. adams", for a long time i have been waiting for a biographer with sufficient style and emotional range to tell the quite extraordinary story of louisa kaplan adams in all its splendor and sadness. "louisa: the extraordinary life of mrs. adams" has been worth the wait. please join me in welcoming her. [applause] >> guest: hi everyone, thanks for coming. i am so happy to be here to talkabout this book . also just happy to be part of this group of louisa. i feel like many other louisa's might have been chosen but i'm honored to be the one. this book also is one of my favorite books that i've read this year, i love this book very deeply, not just because of the narcissistic pleasures of reading about somebody with my own name but also because i found that as a biography it was more deeply invested in understanding the interiority of its main characters than any other biography i've read. i feel like this character of louisa atoms came alive for me and remained with me more than any other character in any books that i've read this year. i think louisa made so many fascinating decisions in this book for me the most interesting was the decision t