Books & Books at The Betsy Hotel Presents An Afternoon with Laura Lekkos
About this Event
🎟️ Please note: Tickets are REQUIRED. Ticket options include:
2 Guests + 1 Book: Each ticket admits two (2) guests into the venue and includes one (1) copy of All the Little Ways ($29 + tax). Books will be handed out upon entry. Additional books will be available for sale at the event.
1 Guest + 1 Book: Each ticket admits one (1) guest into the venue and includes one (1) copy of All the Little Ways ($29 + tax). Books will be handed out upon entry. Additional books will be available for sale at the event.
(Limited Quantity) Free Admission + No Book: Each ticket admits one (1) guest into the venue, but does not include a copy of the book. Additional books will be available for sale at the event.
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About The Book
Victoria and Liz barely breathe the same air, but they collide headfirst when they meet in a group for expectant mothers and find common ground against all odds.
Victoria, forty-three, is confident, poised, and powerful, on the fast track to major career success in finance. Having kids is not in the plan. She had avoided love for decades—and hadn’t been too keen on female friendship either—when she fell for Ace, a dashing man twenty years her senior.
Liz, thirty-two, lives a fairly unstable life, trying to make her situationship work and navigate a job on a vile reality dating show. She’s desperately wanted to experience motherhood for her entire life, but anxiety and insecurity have landed her with a laundry list of failed romances. It’s an accident—ish—when she gets pregnant with her emotionally elusive boyfriend Preston’s baby just shy of a year into dating.
When Liz and Victoria meet in a parenting class, they both feel out of place amongst these pregnant women who seem to have it all figured out. They roll their eyes at the classic sign-off peppering the new mommy group chat: TIA (thanks in advance!). Alienated from these other women and due within a week of each other, Victoria and Liz’s bond becomes a lifeline as they navigate their pregnancies and relationships. They grapple with impending motherhood together and lean on each other to navigate important decisions about family, career, and love. It’s the first successful female friendship in Victoria’s life and the first time Liz has felt so connected to an older, wiser confidante. Maybe, just maybe, it will all be okay.
But as they grow more secure in their futures with each other’s support, the friends confront a shocking turn of events that will change the course of both their lives. Victoria and Liz then must reckon with their relationships, their impending journeys of motherhood, and the strength of their own bond in this unforgettable work of women’s fiction.
About The Author
Laura Lekkos is a screenwriter and book lover. She is especially passionate about female-focused stories and has written screenplays for various studios including 20th Century, Netflix, Amazon MGM, Sony, Universal, and Lionsgate. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
About The Moderator
Sarah Arison is President of Arison Arts Foundation, a private grant-making organization that supports emerging artists and the institutions that foster them. She was immersed in the arts from a young age by her grandparents, visionary philanthropists Ted and Lin Arison, who founded Arison Arts Foundation, YoungArts, and the New World Symphony, among their many philanthropic endeavors.
Arison is active across a broad cross-section of national arts organizations. She is President of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art, and Chair of the Board of YoungArts; she serves on the boards of MoMA PS1, American Ballet Theatre, The Kitchen and Aspen Art Museum; she is a trustee of Lincoln Center, New World Symphony and Serpentine Americas Foundation.
Arison has also ventured into film producing, supporting projects that shed light on lesser known aspects of the arts.
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