Buffalo News Arts Editor Jeff Simon's story "Being True to her School" on Sunday, May 8, 2016 describes SEM alumna Lauren Belfer's new novel "After the Fire," as the product of the kind of thinking Buffalo Seminary nurtures and inspires in its students. "The moment I put the superb book down, and considered its fictional yet bold and provocative premise – that a lost cantata of Johann Sebastian Bach contained anti-Semitic material – it seemed much more like what it is: the product of an alumna of Buffalo Seminary."
Mr. Simon goes on to wax beautifully on the importance of girls' education and SEM.
"Key to everything at SEM is that it is still a single-sex school dealing with a gender that is – still – considered embattled in so many parts of the American social landscape, if not necessarily our own. Educating young women is teaching them to confront difficult facts of life."
On May 17, Ms. Belfer will read and sign books at the Barnes & Noble at 4401 Transit Road, Clarence, NY.
Use Bookfair#ID118860863 to purchase a book at any Barnes & Noble store or online and a percentage of the purchase will be donated to Buffalo Seminary.
