Lunch with the Authors

Love & Other Monsters, Emily Franklin

Love & Other Monsters is a lyrical historical novel that reimagines the dramatic 1816 summer on Lake Geneva when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and a re-examination of an overlooked woman in literary history.

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy, Julia Ioffe

In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. In Motherland, Ioffe explores how Russia had gone from portraying itself as

the vanguard of world feminism to becoming a bastion of conservative Christian values.

Lunch followed by author talks. Pre-registration required by Thursday, October 29: $45