Afternoon Book Club: "By Any Other Name" by Jodi Picoult

Name: Afternoon Book Club: "By Any Other Name" by Jodi Picoult
Start: 2026-01-20T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-20T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Lewiston Senior Center

Schedule

Tue Jan 20 2026 at 01:30 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Lewiston Senior Center | Youngstown, NY

Join our afternoon book club! For this meeting, we are planning to meet live at the Lewiston Senior Center.
This month, we'll be discussing "By Any Other Name" by Jodi Picoult. This book came out in 2024, and its summary is below:
"Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. [...] [Then] her best friend [...] submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.
In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. [...] 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,' 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."
You can order upcoming books here: https://forms.gle/9MT4Szd8S8fgw92L9 A staff member will call you when your books arrive and are ready to be picked up.