ABOUT THE AUTHOR - ERICA ABEEL, a former dancer, is a college professor and journalist. As a film critic she has contributed to Indiewire, Film Journal, and Huffington Post. Erica has published 5 books, including the novel Women Like Us, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Based in New York City and Long Island, she loves to write about feisty women of the 50s who defied their repressive period to chart their own course before the upheavals of the 60s. Her new novel Wild Girls is featured in Oprah magazine’s January 2017 “10 Titles to Pick Up Now,” and touted as a “libidinous period novel [that] follows three budding feminists through an elite women’s college, the New York art scene, and Allen Ginsberg’s bed, as they redefine womanhood for themselves and future generations.”

ABOUT THE BOOK - THE COMMUNE

The Commune is a comic satire and roman a clef that takes us inside the Hamptons commune populated by the newly liberated women present at the creation of the seminal 1970 Women’s March for Equality. The Commune’s pioneering feminists can talk the talk, but find themselves whipsawed between the bold new ideals of the women’s movement and the powerful tug of the past – and therein lies drama.