Meet Samantha Woodruff, Author of The Trade Off

Samantha Greene Woodruff will discuss her new book, The Trade Off, a gripping historical fiction novel set in 1920s New York City inspired by the true story of a pioneering investment legend. Woodruff will be in conversation with author Jacqueline Friedland, author of five novels, including the upcoming Counting Backwards.

In the The Trade Off, we meet Bea Abramovitz, who has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market’s stocks and patterns in the financial pages. After college she’s determined to parlay her talent for the prediction game into personal and professional success. But in the 1920s, in a Lower East Side tenement, opportunities for women don’t just come knocking. Bea will have to create them. So, with her well intentioned but undisciplined charming twin brother, Jake, who longs to reclaim all their parents lost after fleeing the pogroms in Russia to come to America, Bea devises a plan: She’ll be the brains behind the broker. But as Jake’s reputation, his heedless ego, and the family fortune soar, Bea foresees an impending crash that could destroy everything if she doesn’t take control.

Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.

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Samantha Greene Woodruff is also the author of The Lobotomist's Wife, an #1 Amazon bestseller and First Reads pick. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Writer’s Digest, Female First, Read 650 and more. Prior to becoming a novelist, she spent most of her corporate career telling stories to executives at MTV Networks as the senior vice president of strategy and business development and, subsequently, audience research for Viacom's Nickelodeon Group. After leaving corporate life, she pursued varied passions, such as teaching yoga, cooking and taking classes at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. She has a bachelor's degree in history from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business. She lives in Greenwich with her husband, two children and two dogs.

Jacqueline Friedland is the USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of contemporary and historical fiction, including He Gets That From Me, Trouble the Water, That's Not a Thing, The Stockwell Letters and the upcoming Counting Backwards. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and New York University Law School, she practiced as a commercial litigator before returning to school to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing. In addition to writing novels, Jackie regularly reviews fiction for trade publications and appears at schools and other locations as a guest lecturer. She lives in Westchester County with her husband, four children and two dogs who are still working on their manners.