BOOK CLUB NIGHT The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum with author Margalit Fox

**Margalit Fox, **author of **_The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum:_** **_The Rise
and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss_** is our featured speaker for
Book Club Night. Enjoy an array of charcuterie foods, including cheese with
gluten free crackers, and desserts with your book club and other readers at
tables while hearing from the featured author. Followed by book signing.

America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother
named Mrs. “Marm” Mandelbaum. In 1850, twenty-five-year-old Fredericka
Mandelbaum came to New York and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower
Manhattan. By the 1870s, she was a fixture of high society, an admired
philanthropist, and a criminal mastermind!
“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into
the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of _The
Sisterhood_

$20 – Speaker, charcuterie, and dessert
$43 – Speaker, charcuterie, dessert, and hardcover book
**In-person at The J**

**About the Author:** Margalit Fox originally trained as a cellist and a
linguist before pursuing journalism. As a senior writer in _The New York
Times_ ‘s Obituary News Department, she wrote the front-page public sendoffs
of some of the leading cultural figures of our age. Winner of the William
Saroyan Prize for Literature and author of four previous nonfiction books,
_The Confidence Men, Conan Doyle for the Defense, The Riddle of the Labyrinth_
and _Talking Hands._ Fox lives in Manhattan with her husband.

Organized by: The J, The Detroit Jewish Book Fair

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