March Book Club

Description

Book Club is meeting at the Esplanade Sales Gallery or virtually and the book will be determined at the previous month’s meeting.

Book: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

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Please contact your Book Club Leader, Gerri Gorman at 908-358-5560, with any Book Club related questions.

Synopsis of the Book:

She was beautiful. She was a genius. Could the world handle both? A novel about Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich’s plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband’s castle.

She lands in Hollywood, where she becomes Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But Hedy is keeping a secret even more shocking than her Jewish heritage: she is a scientist. She has an idea that might help the country and that might ease her guilt for escaping alone—if anyone will listen to her.

Please register by Friday, March 8 at 4 p.m.

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