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Women’s
World

CSZ Sisterhood event 
features Andrew Gross, 
honors Sandy Schwartz.
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est-selling author Andrew 
Gross will speak about 
his writing career at 
Congregation Shaarey Zedek 
Sisterhood’
s Lois Linden Nelson 
Women’
s World on May 1. The 
event, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., will 
also honor Sandy Schwartz as the 
Woman of Valor.
Manhattan author Gross has writ-
ten more than eight New York Times 
best-selling books. He will speak 
about his career in the field of thrill-
er novels and his move into histori-
cal fiction. He is best known for his 
collaborations with prolific mystery 
author James Patterson.
Gross received his undergrad-
uate degree from Middlebury 
College, his master’
s from Columbia 
University and attended the Writers 
Program at the University of Iowa. 
It took him three years to finish 
a draft of his first book, Hydra, 
a political thriller. Although he 
received many rejections, it was the 
manner in which he developed his 
female characters that eventually led 
to the call from Patterson to collab-
orate on what became The Women’
s 
Murder Club series.
His recent books have been 
historical thrillers, with The One 
Man based on family stories in the 
Holocaust and The Saboteur fictio-
nalizing an Allied raid to prevent 
Nazi Germany’
s development of an 
atomic bomb. Button Man, based on 
his grandfather’
s experiences in New 
York’
s garment industry during the 
Depression, is his 
latest novel.
Sisterhood 
will honor long-
time synagogue 
volunteer Sandy 
Schwartz with 
its Woman of 
Valor Award. 
She is a former 
Sisterhood pres-
ident and a community activist with 
a long, influential volunteer history 

within Jewish Detroit. Schwartz 
has organized, fundraised for and 
helmed some of the most critical 
philanthropic efforts in our com-
munity in the past 50 years. She is 
a Board Member of Jewish Family 
Service and the Jewish Federation 
of Metropolitan Detroit as well as 
a founding trustee of the Jewish 
Women’
s Foundation. 
With friends Michele Passon and 
the late Patti Nemer, she co-created 
the Cancer Thrivers Network for 
Jewish Women. This is an empower-
ing network — not a support group 
— for women living with or recov-
ering from cancer. “To celebrate life, 
we all need three bones: a wishbone, 
a backbone and a funny bone,” 
Sandy said.
This network, numbering more 
than 300 women, meets regularly to 
talk, learn and develop friendships, 
and to enjoy life and each other.
Sandy and husband, Alan 
Schwartz, include son David and 
daughter-in-law Jodi and their 
children Sam, Zack and Andrew; 
and son Mark and daughter-in-law 
Denise and their children Elena and 
Ian.
Sisterhood’
s Lois Linden Nelson 
Women’
s World is the group’
s premier 
event of the year and also features 
pop-up boutique shopping from an 
array of local and Israeli vendors, 
offering clothing, accessories, Judaica 
and creative art. Pop-up shopping is 
free to access and open to the com-
munity. The luncheon and program 
are available at several ticket levels. 
For tickets and patron opportu-
nities, go to llnwomansworld.org or 
contact the Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood 
office at (248) 357-5544. ■

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