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Join Reference Librarian Sam Lee for a discussion of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

It’s the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk. Lillian recalls a long and eventful life that included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America—a career cut short by marriage, motherhood, divorce, and a breakdown. A portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America. 287 pages