Author Event: Becoming Sara
When:
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025 6:00p -
8:00p
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025 6:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Trident Booksellers & Café
338 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Food, Good for Groups, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup
Event website:
https://author-event-becoming-sara-llzr2.tripleseattickets.com/registration/select
Join us as Diane Botnick breaks down her debut novel, Becoming Sarah. There will be complementary wine and cheese as well as plenty of time for discussion and signings. Seating will open at 5:30pm!
Books and extra food will be available for purchase in the room.
About Diane...
Diane was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, but always knew she'd wind up in New York City. Her first night in Greenwich Village she went to a double feature of Godard’s “Weekend” and Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies,” and her romance with the city began. For the next 30 years, Diane worked around, starting out in Italy assisting people like Jerome Robbins and Ellen Stewart with their contributions to the Spoleto Festival, then back in the City for the Dia Art Foundation, Isamu Noguchi, Great Performances at WNET, and finally, Workman Publishing. Along the way, she returned to school in pursuit of a Masters in Creative Writing at City College. Fulfilling all requirements but unable to pass the French exam (with a dictionary!), she was never awarded her diploma. However, the privilege of being mentored by Donald Barthelme and being appointed student editor of the literary magazine FICTION gave her far more than a diploma ever could. Diane and her husband now live in New York's Hudson River Valley.
About the book...
Sarah Vogel thinks of Auschwitz as her hometown, yet she has no memory of the place. Not the obscene conditions of her birth, the mother, or the changing cast of faceless women who kept her warm on winter nights. She’s only three when liberated, and with no one to tell her who she is or what she might become, Sarah invents herself. On her journey from Europe, land of the defeated, to America, land of the self-invented, she learns that holes in a person’s past are red flags and that little white lies go down easier than explanations. But eventually those lies will become the wall that hides her true self, the good parts and bad, from those she loves.
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