Name: Jo Piazza with Joanna Rakoff
Start: 2026-07-31T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-31
Location: An Unlikely Story

Jo Piazza with Joanna Rakoff

An Unlikely Story

Join us for an evening with international bestselling author Jo Piazza to celebrate The Parisian Heist!

Join us for a special evening with international bestselling author, podcast creator, and award-winning journalist, Jo Piazza, to celebrate the release of her new mystery novel, The Parisian Heist!From the bestselling author of The Sicilian Inheritance and Everyone Is Lying to You comes a propulsive dual-timeline mystery drenched in art-world intrigue and brimming with family secrets, betrayal, and the intoxicating lure of power. You won't want to miss this exciting event!Jo will be in conversation with bestselling and award winning author of My Salinger Year, Joanna Rakoff! Tickets for this event are bundled with a copy of The Parisian Heist, which Jo will sign during the event. Tickets are required to attend. We hope to see you there!We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals to engage fully. To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please reach out to events@anunlikelystory.com.Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at An Unlikely Story up to 30 days following the event.About the book:Emma, a struggling American artist in Paris, thought she had left her dreams behind when she took a job cleaning for the city’s wealthy elite. Then she meets Stella Swanson, the widow of one of the most notorious art dealers in the business. The Swansons move in a world where billionaires, oligarchs, and heads of state pay fortunes for masterpieces. Drawn in by their dazzling wealth and the pull of a dangerously charming grandson, Emma becomes both a player and a pawn in a family battle to protect their empire and conceal its crimes. In the late 1800s, the young widow Jo van Gogh inherits hundreds of paintings from her brother-in-law Vincent that the art world deems worthless. Determined to prove their genius, and to secure a future for herself and her young son, she becomes consumed by Vincent’s legacy. As her devotion deepens, a vanished painting and a thwarted love affair leave her unsure who she can trust and how much of herself she’s willing to lose in the process. From glittering auction houses to the idyllic canals of Amsterdam and the grand museums of Paris, the lives of these two women converge as Emma uncovers the Swanson family’s darkest secrets and agrees to mastermind a daring heist inside the Musée d’Orsay. The stakes have never been higher, and these women refuse to be written out of history, no matter the cost.About the author:Jo Piazza is the international bestselling author of 13 books, including Everyone Is Lying to You, The Sicilian Inheritance and the Good Morning America Book Club pick We Are Not Like Them with Christine Pride. She’s also the host of the critically acclaimed Under the Influence podcast. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three feral children.Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestseller My Salinger Year, a memoir, and the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers’ Prize. She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and many others, and has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Aspen Words. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Vogue, Elle, Porter, Cup of Jo, and elsewhere. The film adaptation of My Salinger Year, starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, opened in theaters in 2021 and is now streaming. Her new memoir, The Fifth Passenger, is forthcoming from Little, Brown.

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