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Join us on Wednesday, October 18 at 11 AM to discuss the Book Fair Book Club Night selection in anticipation of the 72nd Annual Detroit Jewish Book Fair: The Majority: A Novel by Elizabeth L. Silver.
Love to read? Want to spend time with other readers? Join Lauren Marcus Johnson, Book Club Facilitator, in the Henry & Delia Meyers Library for book discussions of popular, current fiction with Jewish content or by contemporary Jewish authors. Next series will begin in January 2024.
Sponsored by the Henry & Delia Meyers Library, JLearn, and the Detroit Jewish Book Fair
About the book: [Purchase Book Here]
Inspired by history, a riveting novel of love and friendship, motherhood and ambition, and one woman's fight to be a Supreme Court justice. Half of the United States is waiting for Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein to die. The other half is praying for her to hold on. At 83, "the contemptuous S.O.B." doesn't have much time left. What she has is a story, one she has wrested from the grip of history to tell herself--of how she rose to her historic position on the Supreme Court, and the barriers she broke along the way. Set against the vibrant sweep of the 20th century, THE MAJORITY brings us into the sacrifices, heartaches, and complex emotional life of a powerful woman ahead of her time, whose life and work turn out to have supreme stakes.
About the author: Elizabeth L. Silver is the author of the novel, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, which was an Amazon Best Book of the Year and published in seven languages. Silver has also worked as an attorney in California and Texas, where she was a judicial clerk for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and currently teaches creative writing with UCLA. She has written for Harper's Bazaar, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, and lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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