This spring, the Mayerson JCC Jewish Book Series will bring three talented authors to Cincinnati to speak about their inspiration, their process, and their recent releases. Learn about Jamie Bernstein’s acclaimed memoir “Famous Father Girl,” Naomi Nachman’s creative and informative cookbook “Perfect Flavors,” and Andrew Ridker’s tragicomic debut novel “The Altruists.” Join us at the JCC to hear these writers’ personal stories as we celebrate Jewish literary perspectives.

The old­est daugh­ter of revered composer/​conductor Leonard Bern­stein offers a rare look at her father on the cen­ten­ni­al of his birth in a deeply inti­mate and broad­ly evoca­tive mem­oir. In Famous Father Girl, Bern­stein mines the emo­tion­al depths of her child­hood and invites us into her fam­i­ly’s pri­vate world. A fan­tas­tic set of char­ac­ters pop­u­lates the Bern­steins’ lives, includ­ing: the Kennedys, Mike Nichols, John Lennon, Richard Ave­don, Stephen Sond­heim, Jerome Rob­bins, and Bet­ty (Lau­ren) Bacall. An intox­i­cat­ing tale and an inti­mate med­i­ta­tion on a com­plex and some­times trou­bled man, the fam­i­ly he raised, and the music he com­posed that became the sound­track to their entwined lives. Deeply mov­ing and often hilar­i­ous, Bern­stein’s beau­ti­ful­ly writ­ten mem­oir is a great Amer­i­can sto­ry about one of the great­est Amer­i­cans of the mod­ern age.

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