Book Club: The Talented Mrs. Mendelbaum

All are invited to join the Silver Spring Village in-person book club!  We meet on the fourth Thursday afternoon of each month at the Brig. General Charles McGee Library at 900 Wayne Avenue.  People planning to attend the book group can borrow the book (or electronic version) from the library’s front desk.

The June book will be Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum-The Rise and Fall of an American Organized Crime Boss, by Margalit Fox.
In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. Combining deep historical research with the narrative flair for which she is celebrated, Margalit Fox tells the unforgettable true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies America’s cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely.