An Evening with Lisa Rosenberg

***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event. Want your copy early or can't make it in-person?

This funny mother-daughter caper story stars 73-year-old, overweight former beauty, Aurora, who is a perpetually broke, eccentric divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County. When Aurora discovers her father’s widow has died, she decides to drive to Los Angeles to see if this means money for her.

Enter Aurora’s high-strung and estranged daughter, 43-year-old Leyla, who spends her days keeping up with the other Marin Uber moms, manically pursuing perfection. When she overhears a conversation and suspects her husband is embarking on an affair, she decides to sneak into a Cannabis business conference he is attending, also in LA, to spy on him.

Aurora and Leyla’s separate quests simultaneously intersect and enmesh in Los Angeles over the course of a weekend provoking hijinks and chaos, and yes, even some healing.

Lisa Rosenberg earned her B.A. from U. C. Berkeley in Art History and her M.A. in Graduate Humanities from Dominican University, where she also got her M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She has worked as a public guide at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a Museum Educator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Prior to that she was a Gallerist at several prominent galleries including Crown Point Press, Hackett-Freedman, and John Berggruen Gallery.

Event Venue

Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States