+ New Book Group

We’re so excited to be launching our New Jewish Book Group. Thanks so much to our member Allison Powell who brought the vision to this idea for the downtown community! Contact Allison at connect@tamidnyc(dot)org to join the conversation.

Wednesday, February 13, 7 PM at Pushcart Cafe, 221 East Broadway
A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff. Ms. Rakoff will be present to sign books and join/guide the conversation.

A Fortunate Age details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn during the late 1990s. It won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers, was a New York Times Editors’ Pick, a winner of the Elle Readers’ Prize, a selection of Barnes and Noble’s First Look Book Club, an IndieNext pick, and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller.

Joanna Smith Rakoff has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, theBoston Globe, Vogue, Time Out New York, O:The Oprah Magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals. She has degrees from Columbia University, University College, London, and Oberlin College.

Purchase A Fortunate Age  from Amazon.com