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 pu blisher:
\nWelcome to New York&rsquo\;s legendary hotel for women\, the Barbizon.
\nLiberated after WWI from home and hearth\, women flo cked to New York City during the Roaring Twenties. But even as women&rsquo \;s residential hotels became the fashion\, the Barbizon stood out\; it wa s designed for young women with artistic aspirations and included soaring art studios and soundproofed practice rooms. More importantly still\, with no men allowed beyond the lobby\, the Barbizon signaled respectability\, a place where a young woman of a certain class could feel at home. But as the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in\, the clientele c hanged\, though women&rsquo\;s ambitions did not\; the Barbizon Hotel beca me the go-to destination for any young American woman with a dream to be s omething more.
\nThe first ever history of this extraordinary hotel\ , and of the women who arrived in New York City alone from "elsewhere" wit h a suitcase and a dream\, The Barbizon offers readers a multilay ered history of New York City in the 20th century\, and of the generations of American women torn between their desire for independence and their lo oming social expiration date. By providing women a room of their own\, the Barbizon was the hotel that set them free.
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