A Special Mother's Day Book Club with Georgia Court

117 S. Pineapple Ave.,Sarasota FL 34236

04 May, 2022

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A special book club discussion of the heartbreaking memoir "Eva and Eve" by Julie Metz. Georgia Court, Bookstore1's proprietor, is leading a special Mother's Day book club discussion of the heartbreaking memoir Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind by Julie Metz. Meeting in-person at our new store location at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave.A fee of $28 is required for participation. This includes a copy of Eva and Eve to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the book club meeting. We encourage you to wear a mask at Bookstore1 events to protect yourself and others. Julie Metz will be at Bookstore1 for a special Mother’s Day event on May 8 at 2 p.m. She will be chatting about Eva and Eve. Click here to register. About Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind: Julie Metz’s mother Eve was the quintessential New Yorker—steely, savvy, thrifty, pragmatic, brusque. It was difficult to imagine her living anywhere else except the Upper West Side of Manhattan, but New York City was in fact her adopted home. She was born in Vienna to a comfortable, middle class Jewish family until Germany annexed Austria on March 12, 1938. In the two years following the Nazi takeover, her father Julius struggled to find a safe haven for his wife and children. Across the ocean, anti-immigration fervor prevailed as part of the initial America First movement. Miraculously, Julius got his family out of Vienna just in time, thanks to perseverance, a medicine package made of folded paper, a sympathetic American Vice Consul, and good luck. Shortly after Eve’s death, Metz found a keepsake book her mother had kept hidden in a drawer for over half a century, filled with farewell notes from her childhood friends and relatives. In that secret keepsake book, her mother’s name was Eva. Inspired by this discovery, Metz set out in search of her mother’s lost childhood. The result is Eva and Eve, a real-life detective story that offers moments of grace, serendipity, and lessons for this polarized moment when once again Otherness is the enemy. ........................................................................Click here to go to the Bookstore1Sarasota website. Julie Metz