​April 23rd is World Book Day

Downers Grove IL

19 April, 2021

4:16 PM

Description

Corie Adjmi, award-winning author and women's empowerment activist, strives to change people's lives through the power and relatability of storytelling to help empower women in all areas of life in her award-winning book, Life and Other Shortcomings. Recently featured and reviewed by the Jewish Book Council, and featured in Parade's "20 Classic and New Books About Feminism That Will Get You Thinking and Talking" roundup, Life and Other Shortcomings is the perfect read for this World Book Day. This book illustrates the stories of 12 women, all on a different path in life, with one common overarching theme: the beauty, honesty and compelling nature of the female experience and what it means to be a woman. Through each character's intimate journey, specific truths are revealed about what it means to be a woman—in a relationship with another person, in a particular culture and era—and how these conditions ultimately affect her relationship with herself. The stories as a whole depict patriarchy, showing what still might be, but certainly what was, for some women in this country before the #MeToo movement.