2016 Morris Arts Conversationalist SUSAN SHAPIRO BARASH (aka Susannah Marren), author and gender studies expert, joins your book club to discuss her latest novel "A Palm Beach Scandal." During your one hour Zoom, learn how Shapiro-Barash's nonfiction books inform her novels. Discuss a myriad of topics from family relationships, the agency of women, ethics, and societal roles to the reality of lavish settings and designer name-dropping of Palm Beach. In short, enjoy a "great conversation" with Susan!

The date and hour of your call must be mutually agreed upon and will expire by September 30, 2021

Bio-

Susan Shapiro Barash

Pen name Susannah Marren

Susan Shapiro Barash is an established writer of thirteen nonfiction women's issue books including, TRIPPING THE PROM QUEEN, TOXIC FRIENDS and YOU'RE GROUNDED FOREVER BUT FIRST LET'S GO SHOPPING. Her books focus on the gender divide, what agency means to women and how they are positioned in our society. For her nonfiction she has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune, Elle, 'O', and Marie Claire. She has appeared on national television including The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. For over two decades she has taught in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College where her focus is on gender studies and has guest taught in the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.

Susan's fiction is published under her pen name Susannah Marren. Her novels incorporate her research for her nonfiction works, continuing the theme of how women feel about themselves as daughters, mothers, sisters, friends, wives, mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law, rivals, colleagues and lovers. Her titles are BETWEEN THE TIDES and A PALM BEACH WIFE. On September 15th, her new novel, A PALM BEACH SCANDAL, will come out from St. Martin's Press.

http://www.susanshapirobarash.com/about-susan/