Patricia Weiss Levy, a longtime journalist and 30-plus-year resident of West Hartford, will read from her newly-published memoir at the Noah Webster Library on Sunday, March 26.
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Writer and longtime West Hartford resident Patricia Weiss Levy will discuss and read from her new book, “The Adulterer’s Daughter: The Life, Loves and Longings of a Girl Whose Father Strayed,” at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford Center on Sunday, March 26 at 2 p.m.
“I first laid eyes on my father’s mistress in Women’s Coats at Bloomingdale’s.” So begins this gripping, candid, yet darkly humorous memoir by an award-winning journalist whose father kept a mistress for more than 15 years while still married to her mother. Told in a series of linked stories that read more like fiction, this true coming-of-age tale is less about the author’s wealthy, tyrannical father and his torrid affair than his only daughter’s quest to rise above her family’s dirty little secret and find lasting love … a romantic odyssey made all the more complicated when, despite her own principles, she eventually falls for a married man herself.
Weiss Levy is a former staff writer at Northeast, the Sunday magazine of the Hartford Courant, where she once covered everything from fashion to the demise of Colonial Realty, for which she was nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, Good Housekeeping, USA Today, and the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. She currently writes a personal blog at www.NiceJewishMom.com. This is her first book.
Released in late December, it is now available in both paperback and ebook form on Amazon.com. Its cover was designed by Roxanne Stachelek, also a West Hartford resident and the executive director of the West Hartford Art League.
Following the reading, there will be a book signing and reception with the author.
The Noah Webster Library is located at 20 South Main St., West Hartford. For more information, call the library at 860-561-6990.
