Strong Women in a Changing World

Strong Women in a Changing World · A Two Author Event

Tuesday, October 20 · 7:30pm

$10 Florida series

Erica Katz The Boys’ Club

This debut novel is optioned to Netflix and is a Cosmopolitan Best Summer Read of 2020. Alex Vogel - high achiever with a Harvard Law School degree - accepts a dream offer at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, promising her boyfriend the job won’t change her. Yet she is seduced by the firm’s money, energy and particularly by a handsome coworker. As she begins to question everything — including herself and the dark reality of the firm is revealed, she must do what’s right, even if it means exposing the shocking truth.

Erica Katz is the pseudonym for a graduate of Columbia Law School who is employed at a large law firm in Manhattan.

Anna Solomon The Book of V

This Good Morning America Book Club pick intertwines the lives of three women across three centuries. In 2016, Lily, a mother, daughter, second wife and would-be writer, grapples with sexual and intellectual desires. Vivian Barr, political wife to an ambitious husband in Watergate-era Washington D.C. refuses his demand of a humiliating favor, which changes her life. Esther is an independent young woman in ancient Persia, living a tenuous existence. When an innocent mistake results in devastating consequences for her people, she is offered up as a sacrifice to the King to save them. These characters' overlapping stories illuminate how women’s lives have and have not changed over the years.

Anna Solomon is the author of Leaving Lucy Pear, and The Little Bride, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and two children.