Julie Metz "Eva and Eve" A Special Mother's Day Author Visit

117 S. Pineapple Ave.,Sarasota FL 34236

08 May, 2022

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A special Mother's Day program with Julie Metz, author of the memoir "Eva and Eve." A special Mother’s Day program with memoirist Julie Metz, author of the heartbreaking memoir Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind.Registration is required to attend. There is no charge for this event. There is the option of an $8 fee to help defray the cost. This in-person event is at our new store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple. Registration will end 1 hour before the event scheduled time.You can pre-order a copy of the paperback here, publication date May 3, or purchase a copy of the hardcover book here.Georgia Court, Bookstore1's proprietor, is leading a special Mother's Day book club discussion on Eva and Eve on Wednesday, May 4th at 1 p.m. Register for the book club here.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. Julie Metz is the New York Times bestselling author of Perfection. She has written for publications including The New York Times, Salon, Dame, Tablet, Catapult, and Glamour. She has received fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. You can find out more about Julie’s writing life on Instagram: @JulieMetzWriter and her website: JulieMetz.com. Reviewer's comments: “The story of this moving passion project resonates today, especially in light of the newest wave of American anti-immigrant sentiment and the COVID-19 pandemic. At its heart is a daughter seeking to understand her mother, forever shaped by those terrible years.” —Bridget Thoreson, Booklist “Eva and Eve maps a wide arc, pulling a Jewish family’s past in wartime Vienna into the present era with vivid and dramatic detail. The story of political repression, terror and dissolution; then arrival and retrieval in a new country, is full of astonishing and unlikely twists of fate, showing again that individual destiny may be the greatest mystery of all. Metz’s journey to recover the past offers a model for connection and self-understanding – as well as a testament to the strengths of an America that is just and fair to all.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance, A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love ........................................................................................................... All signed up and unable to go? Please let us know! Seating is limited and there may be people on our waitlist who would like to to take your place. Please send an email to [email protected] ASAP and hopefully we'll see you next time. .................................................................................. Click here to go the Bookstore1Sarasota website. Pre-order a copy of Eva and Eve in paperback here. Publication date May 3. Order a copy of Eva and Eve in hardback here.