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Incest! Lust! Murder! and that's just today! (I can hardly wait for til tomorrow!) As it always is - and has been - rumors swirl around the rich, powerful, and beautiful - and Lucrezia was all 3. The daughter of a Cardinal (later Pope Alexander VI), and the sister of the reputed model for Machiavelli's The Prince (the redoubtable Cesare Borgia, himself a Cardinal thanks to Daddy), it takes some kind of woman to make herself more than a mere footnote in history. Although today's women may choke with outrage at the way the men in her life bartered her about (she wasn't just married 3 times, but engaged several other times - J Lo isn't the first to marry up, you know), the men she married were pawns of their families as well. Still, given the parameters of her time, she was able to take charge of her life and lived it largely in the way she wished. No small feat - but then, it never is!
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Literaries Who Lunch: Lisa See presents and signs Dreams of Joy
- Street:
- 695 E. Colorado Blvd
- City:
- Pasadena ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 91101
- Country:
- United States
Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and angry with her mother Pearl and Aunt May for keeping them from her, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father, the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Devastated by Joy's flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, forcing her to confront old demons and almost insurmountable challenges. Yet even as Joy and Pearl's separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China's history threatens their very lives.
Literaries Who Lunch is free & open to the public. You are welcome to bring your lunch or delicious box lunches are available from Tender Greens for $13.95 (plus tax). If you would like a box lunch, please call Vroman’s customer service at (626) 449-5320 no later than 2/3/11 to place your order.
