Donna asked Elizabeth J. Church:

I loved your book! I am a female scientist and have always been grateful I was born in the right century to follow my dreams in biology. I wondered how I would be if I was born too early. This book is an excellent look at the interior life of someone built to observe and ask why, yet not to have the opportunity to develop that part of herself. I'd love to read more. Do you have another one in the works?

Elizabeth J. Church Well, and in return, I love your question! Recently, a woman I met told me that when she finished her graduate degree in math in the early sixties, she was forced to apply for a job using only her initials and last name -- so she could avoid being pegged as a woman (women were told not to apply). She actually got hired after her interview -- but certainly another example of how things have changed. As for my next novel, it is called ALL THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS (Ballantine, April 2018). It takes place in Vegas in the late sixties (the Rat Pack, Debbie Reynolds, Tom Jones), with themes including the coming of age of women at that time; choices we make about love; the power, beauty and glamor of women's bodies; and the dancer that lives in each of our hearts.

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