Shira Dicker
Jewish Community Center 2640 North Forest Road, Getzville, NY, United StatesShira Dicker is a restless writer-at- large, activist, and publicist who is captivated by contemporary culture. She has written for newspapers, magazines, and news sites that are local, national and global. The mother of three adult children and a grandmother known as “EeHee,” she lives in NYC with her husband, the writer Ari L. Goldman, and Luke Wilson the Pomeranian. Title: Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck: and Other Stories from the Before Times Description: The five compelling tales comprising Lolita at Leonard’s of Great Neck and Other Stories from the Before Times take you on an immersive journey from 1974 to the 2000s. Eighteen-year-old Anna, a Jewish college student, meets a German businessman at a Greek diner on Queens Boulevard. Claire Seltzer of Great Neck has the honeymoon from hell in Paris. Rebecca, a spunky eighth grader, is in love with Mr. Miller, her math teacher. Sarah Reinhardt, the wife of a celebrity doctor living in Central Park West, finds herself in a complicated love triangle. Rachel Rosensweig awakens one morning to find that her husband of thirty years, a Columbia professor, has become a dangerous radical. The characters of this unforgettable collection inhabit the golden era of the postwar, pre-pandemic world. Age-old power struggles — between lovers, between friends, between parents and children— are illuminated and analyzed. Heartbreaking […]