Alina Adams, author of My Mother’s Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region, lives in New York but grew up in San Francisco. This January, she returns to the city where her family immigrated to in 1977 for three in-person author events. Adams is a NYT-bestselling author who has published eighteen novels in multiple genres. My Mother’s Secret, a follow-up to her previous historical novel The Nesting Dolls, tells the remarkable story of a mother’s journey through a little known part of Soviet-Jewish history and a daughter’s search for the truth. Early reviews for the novel have been extremely positive and Foreword Reviews calls My Mother’s Secret “an intimate historical novel in which love equals survival.”

Alina Adams in-person author events in San Francisco

Wednesday, January 25, @ 6pm
Author Reception & Book talk with Alina Adams and Oleysa Shayduk-Immerman
The Brandeis School of San Francisco
655 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, CA 94132

Thursday, January 26, @ 7pm
Parenting with an Accent: How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children
Green Apple Books
506 Clement St., San Francisco, CA, 94118

Sunday, January 29, @ 2pm
Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115