Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Mansfield Public Library — 255 Hope St., Mansfield, MA
Join us in welcoming Weina Randel and Diana Giovinazzo in discussing their current and upcoming novels! Weina Dai Randel is an award-winning, internationally bestselling, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of six historical novels, including The Last Rose of Shanghai , which was optioned for a feature film; Night Angels , which was longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Awards; The Master Jeweler ; and the Empress of Bright Moon duology. She is a winner of the RWA RITA Award, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, and a two-time Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction nominee. She’s also the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in 2023. Her novels have been translated into seventeen foreign languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew. The first Asian American novelist who intertwined Chinese history with the Jewish diaspora in Shanghai during WWII, Weina was frequently invited to speak at universities, libraries, conferences, book festivals, orthodox and reformed synagogues, and other organizations in the US. Weina has worked as an adjunct professor and also as the subject-matter expert for Southern New Hampshire…