Book Happening: Jo Piazza & Glynnis MacNicol

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A pair of female friends and fellow authors have hit the road to promote their new books and will swing through Milwaukee to visit Boswell Book Company this week. The newest releases from award-winning journalists Jo Piazza and Glynnis MacNicol are sharp, intelligent tales focused on contemporary women with ambitious hopes for their respective futures.

For MacNicol’s, whose work has appeared in publications ranging from Playboy.com to The New York Times and The Guardian, No One Tells You This marks her foray into the realm of memoir as she recounts her fortieth year with incisive wit and fantastic aplomb. Successful by modern standards, MacNicol nonetheless found herself struggling to find peace with her happy, albeit single, life as she entered her fourth decade. MacNicol unabashedly provides a blueprint for modern happiness as she reflects on her own life and those of her closest family and friends, while also probing into our society’s long-held notions that by her age, women are still largely expected to have found a partner and given birth.

For Milwaukeean-by-marriage and best-selling author Jo Piazza, her latest novel follows the topical story of a woman who wants it all and finds the courage to risk public attack in an authentic attempt to make a difference. In Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, Piazza has given readers a timely portrait of an American woman who, somewhat naively, decides to try her hand at politics. When Charlotte Walsh decides to run for the U.S. Senate, she doesn’t anticipate the toll it will take on her family, her marriage, her successful career-or on herself. A modern portrait of a career woman balancing multiple life responsibilities, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win is well-written and relatable.