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Book Launch Party – You’re Invited

June 4, 2018 By Michal Strutin

If you live in the SF Bay Area, please come to a book-launch party celebrating my debut novel, Judging Noa: a Fight for Women’s Rights in the Turmoil of the Exodus.

Based on a few biblical verses, Noa pursues inheritance rights to save her sisters and herself from bondage, putting her on a collision course with an unbending patriarchy. Set against the tumultuous Exodus, this timely tale has as much meaning today as it had then.

My presentation will include a slide show on how and where they lived, questions I had while writing (how come they needed manna if they were traveling with goats and sheep?), a brief reading, and a party with sweet and savory snacks, beverages.

Who: open to all

When: Thursday, June 21, 7:30 pm

Where: Congregation Beth David social hall, 19700 Prospect Road, Saratoga, CA 95070

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Welcome to my website. Stories are collaborations among the writer, the editor…and the reader. I love it when readers tell me about insights they’ve had into my writing that I hadn’t even thought of. And, as a reader, I love to fill in details of people and place. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has spawned many movies, yet none of the Lizzys look like the one in my head.

Although I’ve a contemporary sisters story in mind, I like writing historical fiction. Why? Researching a period is fun. Plus, people haven’t changed much over the millennia. Joy, jealousy, love, hate, laughter, misery. These are not new. A story seen from a distance in time gives resonance to the human condition. Homo sapiens? I think it’s just as apt to call ourselves Homo storytellers.

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If you would like me to visit your book club to discuss Judging Noa, please email me through the contact form here.

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