5pm reception, 5:30pm program, followed by book sale & signing
SALON: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks on her new novel, The Secret Chord.
Brooks takes on the rich, enigmatic figure of history and legend, King David, peeling away the myth to bring him to life in Second Iron Age Israel. In a saga of faith, desire, family, ambition, betrayal, and power, she traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.
Sponsored by the Gertrude N. Goldowsky and Seebert J. Goldowsky Foundation and the Pearle W. & Martin M. Silverstein Foundation.
