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"Soup'er" Study

Monday, February 17, 2020 22 Sh'vat 5780

6:00 PM - 8:00 PMMendelsohn Hall

February 17, 2020
Souper Study featuring author Jennifer Cody Epstein
Wunderland

An intimate portrait of a friendship, severed by history and wartime. Manhattan, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava’s father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war? But now Ilse’s ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate, a childhood friend. As her mother’s letters unfurl a dark past, Ava spirals into the shocking history of a woman she never truly knew.
Jennifer Cody Epstein, daughter-in-law of our own Temple member Stephen Epstein, is the author of the international bestseller The Painter from Shanghai and The Gods of Heavenly Punishment and winner of the 2013 Asian Pacific Association of Librarians Honor award for outstanding fiction. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Self, Mademoiselle, and many others. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and an MA in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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