This will be a special meeting of Lez Read.  In Lieu of a regular meeting, we will join the in-store event with Ellis Avery, author of the Last Nude, who will here read from her book.  The event will begin at 7:00pm, not our usual 7:30 start time.  This is an exciting opportunity to hear the author read, ask her questions  and then get your book signed!  If you buy the book at Politics and Prose, receive 20% off.

Paris, 1927.  One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka.

 Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for Tamara, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara's most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished-and coveted-works of art. A season as the painter's muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons: Tamara is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history's darkening tide.