Book Talk with Lynda Cohen Loigman & Jennifer S. Brown
Authors Lynda Cohen Loigman and Jennifer S. Brown will discuss their debut historical novels, The Two-Family House and Modern Girls. Both novels follow the lives of Jewish families living in New York. In Loigman's morally complex debut, The Two-Family House, closely bonded sisters-in-law living in Brooklyn with their husbands and families struggle through a lifetime of consequences that stem from choices made on the evening of a 1947 blizzard and a shocking family secret. Brown's Modern Girls takes place in 1935, in the Jewish community of the Lower East Side, where an immigrant mother and her unmarried daughter both find themselves pregnant and forced to make impossible choices that will challenge their beliefs, betray their traditions, and upset the very world they live in. The authors will discuss the real-life inspirations and research behind their stories, the importance of New York as a setting for their novels, and the common themes running through both books – including religion, motherhood, pregnancy and the role of women in a changing world.
at Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge Street
New York, United States
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