Event

Janis Cooke Newman in conversation with Susanne Pari

Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's present Janis Cooke Newman

"A Master Plan for Rescue"

Tuesday, July 21, 2015
7:30pm

Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Set in 1942 New York and Berlin, a magical novel about the life-giving powers of storytelling, and the heroism that can be inspired by love. It's the innocent love story of a child and the family he has lost. And it is is the romantic tale of a young man who discovers the love of his life, then witnesses her decline, which changes the arc of his future forever.

Propelled by history and imagination and set against a vivid period backdrop, A Master Plan for Rescue is a beautiful, hopeful novel that suggests that people's impact on the world doesn't necessarily end with their lives.

Peter Orner says Newman, "has a rare ability to completely inhabit totally disparate characters. Here, in this World War II-era story, two strangers come together and attempt the impossible. And once again, Newman breathes pulsing life into what we thought was history."

Janis Cooke Newman is the author of the Bay Area Bestseller, Mary, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist and USA Today's Best Historical Fiction of the Year. Newman is also the author of The Russian Word for Snow, a memoir about adopting her son from a Moscow orphanage. Newman's travel writing has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines, including the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Backpacker.

Susanne Pari is the author of The Fortune Catcher, about a young womanJewish and Muslimwho follows her lover to Iran where they are separated and entangled in the turbulent aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. Her work appears in The New York Times Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR.

The event is free - please register today.