Join the Besters Book Club for a look at Elizabeth L. Silver’s latest novel, a story inspired by history about love, friendship, motherhood, ambition, and one woman’s fight to become a Supreme Court justice.

Friday, November 1

11:00 am on Zoom

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About the Book

Half of the United States is waiting for Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein to die. The other half is praying for her to hold on. At 83, “the contemptuous S.O.B.” doesn’t have much time left. What she has is a story, one she has wrested from the grip of history to tell herself—of how she rose to her historic position on the Supreme Court, and the barriers she broke along the way.

Told over fifty years, from losing her mother at a young age to falling in love to navigating an unplanned pregnancy and motherhood to learning how to spar with a sexist mentor, Sylvia’s personal story reveals the intimate truth about who she was as she ascended to her modern throne: not just a brilliant mind, but a daughter, a best friend, a wife, mother, and advocate. While caught in a dramatic tug of war between career and family, truth and convenience, progress and patience, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history – and give voice, at last, to the majority.

Set against the vibrant sweep of the 20th century, THE MAJORITY brings us into the sacrifices, heartaches, and complex emotional life of a powerful woman ahead of her time, whose life and work turn out to have supreme stakes.

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About the Author

Eliz­a­beth L. Sil­ver is the author of the nov­el, The Major­i­ty, as well as the mem­oir, The Tinc­ture of Time: A Mem­oir of (Med­ical) Uncer­tain­ty (Pen­guin Press), and the nov­el, The Exe­cu­tion of Noa P. Sin­gle­ton (Crown). Her work has been called ​“fan­tas­tic” by The Wash­ing­ton Post, ​“mas­ter­ful” by The Wall Street Jour­nal, ​“impor­tant” by The Los Ange­les Times, has been pub­lished in sev­en lan­guages, and optioned for film. A grad­u­ate of The Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia, Tem­ple Uni­ver­si­ty Beasley School of Law, and The Uni­ver­si­ty of East Anglia’s Cre­ative Writ­ing MFA, Eliz­a­beth cur­rent­ly teach­es cre­ative writ­ing with the UCLA Writ­ers Pro­gram. She is the founder and direc­tor of Onward Lit­er­ary and lives in Los Ange­les, Cal­i­for­nia, with her family.