Conversation with Pam Jenoff | The Woman with the Blue Star

VIRTUAL EVENT
JUNE 1 | 5 PM
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Join us for a conversation with New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff, to discuss her latest book, The Woman with the Blue Star, a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship during World War II. Joining her in conversation is national bestselling author Erika Robuck.
 

1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the Krak w Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous tunnels beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches a glimpse of something moving beneath a grate in the street. Upon closer inspection, she realizes it's a girl hiding. Ella begins to aid Sadie and the two become close, but as the dangers of the war worsen, their lives are set on a collision course that will test them in the face of overwhelming odds. Inspired by incredible true stories, The Woman with the Blue Star is an unforgettable testament to the power of friendship and the extraordinary strength of the human will to survive.

Pam Jenoff is the author of several books of historical fiction, including the bestseller The Orphan's Tale. She holds a degree in international affairs from George Washington University and a degree in history from Cambridge, and she received her JD from UPenn. Her novels are inspired by her experiences working at the Pentagon and as a diplomat for the State Department handling Holocaust issues in Poland. She lives with her husband and 3 children near Philadelphia, where she teaches law.

Erika Robuck is the national bestselling author of The Invisible WomanHemingway’s GirlCall Me ZeldaFallen BeautyThe House of Hawthorne, and Receive Me Falling. She is a contributor to the anthology Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion, and to the Writer’s Digest Essay Collection, Author in Progress. In 2014, Robuck was named Annapolis’ Author of the Year, and she resides there with her husband and three sons.

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NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for joining the meeting. Closed captioning is available for this session. Information on enabling closed captioning in Zoom may be found here.

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Event date: 
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Event address: 
DE 19971