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Experience a world of culture when author Kitty Zeldies comes to Sid Jacobson JCC to discuss her praised novel Not Our Kind.
The period right after WWII, a time featured recently in such bestselling books as The Women in the Castle and The Lilac Girls, was a time awash with possibility—for some. Set in the New York City of that era, Not Our Kind by Kitty Zeldis features two young women—one Jewish, one not —and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting. Combining the glamour of Rules of Civility with a Mad Men-esque setting that is as vivid as the hats and gloves these characters wear, this novel is beautifully rendered by a Brooklyn-based pseudonymous novelist and non-fiction writer of books for children and adults.
Gripping and vividly told, Not Our Kind looks at the lives of two women on the cusp of change, and asks readers how much our identities can and should define us. The experiences of these two seem to be a gentle precursor to the massive cultural, sociological and technological changes that will happen for the millions of Americans in peacetime.