Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2024
Author Visit: Debra Green Feldman, Mahjong at Mara's (2024) Meet Debra Green Feldman as she discusses her book, Mahjong at Mara's (2024), and then enjoy a light lunch. Her latest novel contains an endearing and diverse cast of characters set in suburban New Jersey. Protagonist Lila and her teenage son Dante find solace amidst a local group of mahjong-playing octogenarians. As new neighbors and Dante's friends enter the mix, all their lives take surprising turns that raise questions about concepts of family, loyalty, and love. Class fee includes a copy of the book and a light lunch.
DEBRA GREEN FELDMAN is the author of Mahjong At Mara's (2024) and The Convention of Wives (2022). She received a BA from Rutgers University and an MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Author Visit Only: Friday, May 3 Friday, June 14 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Westchester Reform Temple • Course 12528 • $40 Author Visit Plus Open Play – Triple Play: A Novel, Nibbles, and Games:
Calling all mah jongg and canasta players for a midday author visit, light lunch, and two-hours of open play. After the book talk, enjoy a light lunch and then two hours of open play of either canasta or mah jongg. Bring your own tiles, cards and foursomes! Fee is inclusive of a table for four players, a book for each player and a light lunch. Friday, May 3 Friday, June 14 • 11:00am-2:30pm • Westchester Reform Temple • Course 12527 • $200
Author Visit: Ellen Feldman, The Trouble With You (2024) Ellen Feldman, author of nine novels, will join Elyse Mall Klayman to discuss her latest work The Trouble With You (2024). Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II, the book tells the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Fanny is a young mother torn between her cousin Mimi, who is determined to keep her a “nice girl” — the kind that marries a doctor — and her aunt Rose, who has a rebellious past of her own. Struggling to raise her young daughter and forge a new life by sheer will and pluck, she takes a job in the entertainment business and comes face to face with the blacklist which is destroying careers and wrecking lives. Ultimately, she must decide between playing it safe or doing what she knows is right in a world that — to contemporary readers — seems at once light years away and strangely immediate. Time will be reserved for Q&A. Registered students will each receive a copy of the book.
ELLEN FELDMAN , a 2009 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of The Living and the Lost (winner of Long Island Reads award), Paris Never Leaves You (translated into thirteen languages), Terrible Virtue (optioned by Black Bicycle for a feature film), The Unwitting , Next to Love , Scottsboro (shortlisted for the Orange Prize), The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice”), Lucy , and, her most recent novel, The Trouble With You (2024). Feldman grew up in northern New Jersey and attended Bryn Mawr College, from which she received a BA. and an MA in modern history. After further graduate studies at Columbia University, she worked for a New York publishing house. ELYSE MALL KLAYMAN spent close to 20 years working in higher education, first at NYU's journalism school, then at NYU Law, where she created and led the communications team. Klayman has written and edited for various magazines and has been freelancing recently for a new publication about the exploding sport of pickleball. Wednesday, June 12 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Westchester Reform Temple Scarsdale Public Library • Course 12612 • $30
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