Book Discussion Cafe

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult is our selected book for April. Reference Librarian Barbara Chen will lead the discussion. 

 "As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has never recovered, although she has just completed a work that she thinks is her best yet. It is based on the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, the first published female poet in England--and rumored to be the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets--but whom some scholars suspect may be the real author of a number of his plays.