The Survivors Guild

How tragedy can teach us how to live (RMS Titanic and Carpathia at sea, and Manhattan’s Upper West Side; April 14 – October 1912): The Survivors Guild is my kind of historical novel. Yours too if you want to feel energized by women who’ve “had a remarkable way of doing. Of survival.” Two very different women from very different walks of life emotionally recount how their destinies became indelibly bonded when the one society deemed lesser-than – Nabitha “Bea” Hohra from Tripoli, Lebanon – saves the life of Manhattan socialite Marguerite Ashby. By artfully crafting their social classes, situations, prestige, obligations, personalities, Gabriella Saab’s leading characters dramatize an era in early 20th century American history marked by the excesses of wealth and power concentrated in the hands of the few resulting in systemic inequalities – the Gilded Age. The historical implications speak to the historical period we’re currently living in. Over a century later, historians and…