Join the Detroit Jewish Book Fair for LUNCH WITH THE AUTHORS featuring Authors, Aaron Hamburger (Hotel Cuba), and Nina Simon (Mother-Daughter Murder Night)
Speakers and Lunch, $36
Pre-registration required, limited seating available: Click to purchase ticket
Books will be available during the event in the Book Fair Bookstore, followed by a book signing with the authors.
About the book: Mother-Daughter Murder Night [Purchase Book Here]
High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of, but when she finds herself trapped miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck hoping that boredom won't kill her before the cancer does. Then Jack happens upon a dead body while kayaking. With Jack and Beth's help, Lana uncovers a web of lies, family vendettas, and land disputes lurking beneath the surface of a community populated by folksy conservationists and wealthy ranchers. But as their amateur snooping advances into ever-more dangerous territory, the headstrong Rubicon women must learn to do the one thing they've always resisted: depend on each other.
About the author: Nina Simon writes crime stories about strong women. A former NASA engineer, slam poet, and museum director, Nina lives with her family in an off-grid community in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Mother-Daughter Murder Night is her first novel.
About the book: Hotel Cuba [Purchase Book Here]
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling Frieda sail for America to join their sister in New York. But discriminatory new immigration laws bar their entry, and the young women are turned back at Ellis Island. With few options, Pearl and Frieda head for Havana, Cuba, convinced they will find a way to overcome this setback.
A heartbreaking, epic family story, Hotel Cuba explores the profound courage of two women displaced from their home who strive to create a new future in an enticing and dangerous world far different from anything they have ever known.
About the author: Aaron Hamburger is the author of the story collection The View from Stalin's Head--which won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Rome Prize and was nominated for a Violet Quill Award--and two novels, Faith for Beginners, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and Nirvana Is Here, winner of a Bronze Medal from the Foreword Reviews Indies Book Awards. His writing has appeared in the New York Times; Washington Post; O, The Oprah Magazine; Tablet; The Forward; and numerous other publications. He lives in Washington, DC.
SPONSORS: Gold Book Sponsor: Bookstock; Bronze Book Sponsor: Hadassah Greater Detroit
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