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FREE EVENT
Qesher Book Club: All Afternoon
Tuesday, August 4
USA, Canada 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET
UK 8:00 pm / France 9:00 pm / Israel 10:00 pm
The talk will last approximately 60 minutes
About the Book
Set in a tight-knit Jewish community in 1978, All Afternoon is the story of Marilyn Weisfeld, a once-promising writer who abandoned her literary dreams for marriage and motherhood twenty years earlier. Now, she's too busy raising children and braiding challahs to even think about what she gave up… until the night an old friend of her husband's comes to dinner. When bestselling author Henry Goldfarb urges Marilyn to start writing again, she finds herself torn between the comfort of tradition and the thrill of new possibilities.
Through her own childhood recollections and historical research, author Susan Kleinman has recreated the suburban-Ashkenazi Modern Orthodox Judaism of the 1970s, a time and place in which the lifestyles of Eastern-European immigrants gave way to the culture of their American-born children, and in which the roles and expectations of and for women were evolving in the Jewish community and in the wider world.
You can find out more and order the book here.
About the Author
Susan Kleinman's short stories have appeared in The American Literary Review, The Baltimore Review, CRAFT literary, and JewishFiction.com, and her articles have been featured in Cosmopolitan, Hadassah Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, The New York Times, and dozens of other publications in the US and abroad.
Susan holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded a Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College, where she subsequently taught classes in fiction-writing and overcoming writer's block.
She grew up in a tight-knit Jewish suburb half-an-hour from New York City similar to the town in which All Afternoon is set, and she and her husband raised their now-grown children in the same kind of community. When she isn't writing, you'll find her making collages out of the vintage magazine she purchased to research 1970s recipes and fashion for All Afternoon.
RECORDING INFORMATION
This talk will be recorded and shared with registrants the day after.
It will be available without a time limit
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