Name: Meet the Author - Jodi Picoult
Start: 2024-09-06T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Franklin Jr High Event Center

Author Jodi Picoult is coming to Des Moines and Beaverdale Books is thrilled to host her at Franklin Junior High Event Center, located at 4801 Franklin Avenue. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at: https://BeaverdaleBooksJodiPicoult.eventcombo.com.
Each ticket covers one admission to Jodi's presentation, including Q&A session, one signed copy of her newest novel, By Any Other Name, and a photo line with a professional photographer who will capture a personal meet-and-greet moment for each ticketholder. All books will be pre-signed.
Book Synopsis: Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn't level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.
In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage--by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.
Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, is a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten.
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 novels, including Mad Honey, Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page.
Bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf will join Jodi in conversation. She is the author of ten novels, including her most recent book, Everyone is Watching.