Women on the Move: Susan Isaacs and Marilyn Simon Rothstein

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Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know OneMarilyn Simon Rothstein, Crazy to Leave You

Bestselling author Susan Isaacs is no fan of namby-pamby women who look to men for their identities. Rather, as she argued in her classic Brave Dames and Wimpettes: What Women Are Really Doing on Page and Screen, women need heroines who define themselves in the world beyond hearth, home and husbands. And both Isaacs and Marilyn Simon Rothstein create them in fictional worlds that mirror so much of our own lives.

Rothsteins latest heroine is a 41-year-old woman unceremoniously dumped at the altar who manages to gather her courage, seize control over her destiny and find worthiness in the most unexpected place. Isaacs latest novel will appear in the spring, a sequel to her Takes One to Know One, the tale of an FBI agent who trades her badge in for marriage and motherhood but finds herself unable to resist the lure of her detective toolkit. 

After 25 years running an ad agency, Marilyn Simon Rothstein burst onto the womens fiction scene with Lift and Separate, which she followed with Husbands and Other Sharp Objects. 

The author of 14 novels, all New York Times bestsellers, Susan Isaacs is also a screenwriter and producer. 

In Partnership with The Jewish Book Council

About the Series: WOMEN ON THE MOVE

Searching for the perfect man. Confronting wrenching choices. Finding courage when you think you have none. Motherhood, mystery, hilarious antics, twisted fate.

Nine female authors of both the weighty and the light-hearted fiction we read to match our moods have charted these waters in new novels and short stories. Join us for revealing conversations about being a female writer today, about speaking to the dilemmas we all face and providing us the courage to become more. 

This series is moderated by Zibby Owens, creator of the popular podcast Moms Dont Have Time to Read Books; writer, lawyer and host of Kvellers podcast Call Your Mother, Jordana Horn; and Marjorie Shuster, Coordinator of Literary Events at The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.