Paths Taken: Women’s Lives, Choices, and Legacies
Join authors Marjan Kamali, Jessica Elisheva Emerson, and Daniel Lavery as they delve into the resilience, struggles, and transformative decisions of women navigating complex cultural, emotional, and societal landscapes.
| Where: | Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142, Wheelchair accessible)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 16, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |
| Moderator: | Meredith Amadee |
| Sponsors: | Session made possible courtesy of Visit Tucson, Mary and Robert |
Panelists
Marjan KamaliMarjan Kamali, born in Turkey to Iranian parents, spent her childhood in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, Iran and the United States. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and New York University....
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Daniel LaveryDaniel M. Lavery is a former Dear Prudence advice columnist at Slate, the cofounder of The Toast, and the New York Times-bestselling author of "Texts from Jane Eyre," "The Merry Spinster" and "Something That May Shock and Discredit You....
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Books:
Olive Days
A Novel
Jessica Elisheva Emerson
Fiction / Literature
Catapult
September 2024
ISBN 9781640096530
320 pages
Buy nowOlive Days is a completely immersive novel, unlike anything I've read. We're in so deep with Rina, as she navigates the complicated restraints of her Orthodox Jewish community, that every meal, every walk, every discovery of her possible choices feels immediate.
Emerson's prose is not about religion or desire, those abstract ideas, but about a woman's burning disbelief in the very structure of her life, and her absolute insistence on sexual passion and freedom." More/less
The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali
Fiction / Literature
Simon and Schuster
July 2024
ISBN 9781668036587
336 pages
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Women's Hotel
Daniel Lavery
Fiction / Literature
HarperCollins
October 2024
ISBN 9780063343535
Hardcover, 272 pages
Buy nowFrom the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.
The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.
The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts.
As trenchant as the novels of Dawn Powell and Rona Jaffe and as immersive as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Lessons in Chemistry, Women’s Hotel is a modern classic—and it is very, very funny. More/less
