Set in 2019, Lois Cahall’s Maybe Marilyn: A Novel reimagines Marilyn Monroe as a survivor who escaped Hollywood, rather than a victim. When two young reporters get the tip of a lifetime, they begin a search to find the famed actress that leads them to a shocking discovery: her granddaughter, alive and well on Cape Cod. As Priya Parmar reminds us in The Original: A Novel, stars must play by certain rules. Though it didn’t take Hollywood’s studio system long to embrace Katharine Hepburn as a potential star, Hepburn – brilliant, bisexual, outspoken, and strong-willed – is not the conforming kind. She can be the star everyone wants her to be, or risk it all and be the woman she always was. Moderated by author Rochelle B. Weinstein.

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