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This is Not About Us: May’s PBS Books Readers Club Pick

PBS Books Readers Club invites you for a conversation with the best-selling author of Isola and Sam for a special look into her newest novel This Is Not About Us. Join us on May 27 at 5 pm PT & 8 PM ET for a delightful conversation with Allegra Goodman hosted by Lauren Smith and Heather-Marie Montilla.

📖 This is Not About Us opens as the youngest of the three Rubenstein sisters passes away, and a petty dispute at her funeral over an apple cake splits the remaining sisters apart. What follows is a family saga spanning three generations, unfolding life into vignettes that drop in on long marriages and divorces, teenage milestones and middle-age reckonings. Each chapter adds another layer to a family portrait that's complicated, constantly shifting, and never quite complete.

Witty, wise, and emotional, this novel moves through the messy, tender rhythms of a modern Jewish American family, including sisters who irritate and sustain each other, parents who mean well but fall short, and children who grow up and away. Goodman writes with clear-eyed warmth about the bonds we fracture and the ones we can't quite let go, finding humor and heartbreak in equal measure.

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Grab your copy of This is Not About Us and read along! Then join the PBS Books Readers Club on  May 27^th 2029 at 8:00 PM ET to hear from Allegra Goodman on how she approached writing such a wide cast of characters and the inspirations behind them.

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