“This book should be required reading. The Majority is a tiny hammer in Silver’s hand, undetectable and hovering overhead, the act of reading like a trigger breaking you apart over and over again.
—Natashia Deon, NAACP-nominated author of Grace
A riveting novel of motherhood and ambition, love and friendship, and one woman’s fight to be a Supreme Court justice.
Half of the United States is waiting for Justice Sylvia Olin Bernstein to die. The other half is praying for her to hold on. At eighty-three, “the contemptuous S.O.B.” doesn’t have much time left. What she does have is her story.
Covering the span of fifty years, Sylvia’s personal account reveals the intimate truth about a woman who is not just a brilliant mind but a daughter, a best friend, a wife, and a mother. Caught in a tug-of-war between career and family, truth and convenience, progress and patience, she will be given a chance to change the course of American history.
“Thought-provoking”
—Janet Fitch
“A story of secrets”
—Amanda Eyre Ward
“Unforgettable”
—Sarah McCoy
“It changed me.”
—Natashia Deon
“Restored my faith in justice.”
—Lynn Steger Strong
“Intimate and epic”
—Edan Lepucki
About Elizabeth L. Silver
Elizabeth L Silver is the author of the novel, The Majority (Riverhead), as well as the memoir, The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty (Penguin Press), and the novel, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (Crown). Her work has been called “fantastic” by the Washington Post, “masterful” by The Wall Street Journal, “important” by the Los Angeles Times, has been published in seven languages, and optioned for film. A graduate of The University of Pennsylvania, Temple University Beasley School of Law, and The University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MFA, Elizabeth has written for The Washington Post, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney's, and others, and currently teaches creative writing with the UCLA Writers Program. She is the founder and director of Onward Literary and lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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