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June 12, 2012 from 7:00 PM

Schmooze with the Author: APJCC Book Club
Ever read an intriguing book and wished you could pick the author’s brain afterword? Have you ever finished a novel and longed to know what happens next to the character? Now is your chance to have these conversations. Read these amazing new books then come and schmooze and nosh with the author! All Schmooze with the Author events are at 7:00pm and are free to attend. For more information or to RSVP, call 408.357.7411 or email jenessa@svjcc.org.

The Cosmopolitans by Nadia Kalman
Tuesday, June 12th
A finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature, this warm and exuberantly comic debut tells the story of the Molochniks, Russian-Jewish immigrants in suburban Connecticut. Daughters wed, houses flood, cultures clash…and the past has a way of emerging at the most inconvenient moments (and in the strangest ways.) Equal parts Jane Austen and Gogol, The Cosmopolitans casts a sharp and sympathetic eye on the foibles and rewards of family and life in America. Nadia Kalman is a 2011 Sami Rohr Prize Finalist. As a child, Nadia Kalman emigrated with her family from the former Soviet Union. Formerly a middle-school teacher and assistant principal, she now works as a writer-in-the-schools in New York City. She recently won the 2011 Moment Magazine Emerging Writers Award for Fiction.

Contact: Jenessa Schwartz, jenessa@svjcc.org
Organization: APJCC Center for Jewish Life and Learning
Website Link: www.SiliconValleyJCC.org/JPlace
Location: Addison-Penzak JCC
14855 Oka Road
Los Gatos, CA 95032

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