JCC MetroWest presents, Laney Katz Becker, In the Family Way Set in the 1960's before Roe vs Wade, this is a poignant and powerful novel about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives who help one another navigate their personal challenges, marriages, and their pregnancies - both wanted and unwanted. Moving and atmospheric, full […]

JCC MetroWest presents, Tod Lending, The Umbrella Maker's Son During the week of Yom Hashoah, we'll discuss this powerful, heart-wrenching novel that follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible journey to escape the Nazis. A love story and a story of family, "The Umbrella Maker's Son," is a riveting, heartfelt, and beautiful tale of […]

JCC MetroWest presents, Allison Epstein, Fagin the Thief A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London's most gifted pickpocket, liar and rogue. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob's whole world is his […]

JCC MetroWest presents, Jessica Berger Gross, Hazel Says No When Hazel Blum's father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and her family relocate from Brooklyn to a remote college town in Maine. They attempt to acclimate to their new lives and connect with the town's sprawling community, On Hazel's first day of […]

JCC MetroWest presents, Tovah Mirvis, We Would Never Inspired by a true story, "We Would Never' is an "intellectual mystery-part whodunit, part whydunit, and heavy on the complexities of famuly dynamics, asking: How far would you go to protect those you love?" (The Boston Globe). A divorce leads to murder, and the victim's ex-wife is […]