This is a hybrid event and will be hosted in-person in the Community Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library as well as on Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive the link to the m eeting via email.
\nhttps://library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrce 2srDouH9aTyu_GZqZsrFCiAOBmnVz3
\nCo-sponsored by the City of Wes t Hollywood Women's Advisory Board\, Women and Books Book Club meets on th e first Tuesday of the month to discuss literary works by and focused on w omen.
\nPlease contact the library to borrow a print copy of the boo k. eBook and eAudiobook are available throu gh Libby app/OverDrive .
\nSummary provided by the publisher:
\nLorena Hic kok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt' s first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Da kota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in Americ a\, "Hick\," as she's known to her friends and admirers\, is not quite ins tantly charmed by the idealistic\, patrician Eleanor. But then\, as her co nnection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy\, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love\, and a life that Hick nev er expected to have.
\nShe moves into the White House\, where her st atus as "first friend" is an open secret\, as are FDR's own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration\, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts\, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great presiden t but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend\, capable of chang ing lives even after his death. Through it all\, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common\, and as she gro ws as a woman and a writer\, she never loses sight of the love of her life .
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