Join us Saturday, October 14 as we welcome authors Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall to discuss their most recent book Star Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s Paris. Star Crossed brings to life the story of ill-fated artists Annette Zelman and Jean Jausion, whose dazzling and passionate love affair at Paris’s renowned Café de Flore in the run-up to World War II ended in betrayal and tragedy.

Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star Crossed offers precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.

Authors Macadam and Worrall are a husband-and-wife writing team who have earned separate accolades. Macadam is author of the acclaimed PEN America Award finalist nonfiction Holocaust history book 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz, while Worrall has written two acclaimed books and spent his childhood in Paris – a city they beautifully portray here, full of art, music, love and light.