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SUMMARY:Meet Author Linda Kass in conversation with Kelly Fishman
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DESCRIPTION:Join us when author Linda Kass visits to discuss her new book\
 , <i>Bessie</i>\, with Kelly Fishman of the Anti-Defamation League..\nhttp
 s://cuyahoga.libnet.info/event/8702611
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><em>About the author:</em></p>\n<p><strong
 >Linda Kass</strong> is the author of three historical novels\,&nbsp\;<em>
 Tasa&rsquo\;s Song</em>&nbsp\;(2016)\;&nbsp\;<em>A Ritchie Boy</em>&nbsp\;
 (2020)\,&nbsp\;an IPPY Gold Medal Winner in Historical Fiction in 2021\; a
 nd&nbsp\;<em>Bessie</em>\,&nbsp\;which was named&nbsp\;A Hasty Book List M
 ost-Anticipated Historical Fiction Title for 2023.&nbsp\;<em>Bessie&nbsp\;
 </em>was released in September 2023. Linda&nbsp\;began her career as a mag
 azine journalist and correspondent for regional and national publications.
  She is the founder and owner of Gramercy Books\, an independent bookstore
  in Columbus\, Ohio. Find her online at&nbsp\;<a href="lindakass.com">lind
 akass.com</a></p>\n<p>In <em><strong>Bessie</strong></em>\, just days afte
 r the close of World War II\, Bess Myerson&mdash\;\, the college-educated 
 daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx&mdash\;\, i
 s competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5\,000 scholarship. 
 The tension and excitement in Atlantic City&rsquo\;s Warner Theatre is pal
 pable\, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So b
 egins&nbsp\;Bessie.</p>\n<p>Drawing on biographical and historical sources
 \, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson\, who\, in 1945 at age
  twenty-one\, remarkably rises to become one of the most famous women in A
 merica. This intimate fictional portrait reveals the transformation of the
  nearly six-foot-tall\, self-deprecating yet talented preteen into an exem
 plar of beauty&mdash\;\, a peripheral quality in her world\, where success
  is measured by intellectual attainment. Yet it is the focus on her beauty
 \, and the secular world of pageantry\, that she must choose to escape her
  roots and fulfill her fierce desire to achieve and become someone for who
 m great things happen.</p>\n<p>Linda Kass will be in conversation with <st
 rong>Kelly Fishman</strong>\,&nbsp\;the Regional Director for the Anti-Def
 amation League&rsquo\;s Cleveland office serving Ohio\, Kentucky\, West Vi
 rginia\, &amp\; Western Pennsylvania. In addition to her work now at ADL\,
  she is also currently working on her Doctor of Education degree in divers
 ity and equity in education through the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Ch
 ampaign and writing a chapter for a freshman DEI textbook for West Virgini
 a University.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><em><strong>Books will be available for purch
 ase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.</strong></em></p>\nhttps:
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