Women’s Hotel with Daniel M. Lavery and Austin Channing Brown

Discover “one of Fall’s most anticipated reads” when Daniel M. Lavery shares his new poignant and funny debut novel.

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About the Book:

ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED READS—New York Times, Vulture, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and more

From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.

The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.

The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts.

As trenchant as the novels of Dawn Powell and Rona Jaffe and as immersive as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Lessons in Chemistry, Women’s Hotel is a modern classic—and it is very, very funny.

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About the Author:

Daniel M. Lavery is a former “Dear Prudence” advice columnist at Slate, the co-founder of The Toast, and the New York Times-bestselling author of Texts from Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster, and Something That May Shock and Discredit You. He also writes the popular newsletter The Chatner. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About the Conversationalist:

Austin Channing Brown is an author and speaker providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, which was also a Reese's Book Club pick in 2020. She has also released a young readers edition of I'm Still Here and contributed to the anthologies Hungry Hearts and You Are Your Best Thing. Austin has a Bachelor of Arts in business management and a Masters of Arts in social justice.