Ayelet Waldman: Love and Treasure

The acclaimed author of Red Hook Road, Bad Mother, Daughter’s Keeper, and the “Mommy Track Mysteries” series  joins us at the Berkeley Public Library North Branch to talk about her latest  novel, Love and Treasure.

In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasure—a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona, a fierce, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman— a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life.

Complementary copies of this book will be available at the North Branch, and at various points around Berkeley while supplies last!