BOOK CLUB and Q&A WITH AUTHOR SASH BISCHOFF '09 - MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2025

RSVP deadline extended to Monday 6/16 @ noon!


The Princeton Alumni Weekly Book Club selected Sweet Fury for one of their “picks” earlier this year.  Now, author Sash Bischoff ’09 is coming to Chicago to meet in person with alumni in the Windy City!  While we are hosting “live” from the Willis (Sears) Tower, we are excited to share this Princeton book club experience with fellow alumni simultaneously via Zoom.  

Bischoff’s first novel plays with the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1917 — his characters, his writing style, and his experience at Princeton. The dark, twisty tale follows a celebrity actress starring in a feminist adaptation of Tender Is the Night as she begins working with a therapist. Both characters are alumni.

Author and Princeton humanities professor Joyce Carol Oates said: “Sweet Fury is a wildly imaginative, very dark romance of a kind that would have shocked F. Scott Fitzgerald, that icon of the Roaring Twenties. Filled with surprises, unpredictable in its denouement, this audacious first novel is a subversive and highly entertaining exploration of the theme of ‘romance’ itself.”

sweet-fury-bookIf you don't yet have a copy of Sweet Fury, books are available on-line and also via Stephanie Roman Hochschild '86's Winnetka-based store, The Book Stall.

This hybrid event is co-hosted by the Princeton Women’s Network (PWN) and the Princeton Club of Chicago. 

All are welcome and encouraged to attend, whether or not you have a chance to read or finish the book!

Please RSVP below by 6/16 @ noon to let us know if you can join us in person or virtually. 

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Sash Bischoff '09 is a writer and director. Her debut novel, Sweet Fury, was published in January 2025 by Simon & Schuster in the US and Canada, as well as by Penguin Random House in the UK and Commonwealth. It is also being translated and published in Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain and Latin America, and Ukraine.

At Princeton, Sash trained under professors Jeffrey Eugenides and Joyce Carol Oates, won Princeton’s Creative Writing Fiction Award, and founded the Princeton Writers Group. She has written plays that have been developed at theatres throughout the US, and has held residencies at Ragdale, PLAYA, the Albee Foundation, Caldera, and Sirenland Writers Workshop.

Sash grew up as an actor, and won the National Arts Award (NFAA) for Acting. She currently lives in New York City’s West Village with her husband and their many pets.

Praise for Sweet Fury:

“Sweet Fury is cunningly ambitious, and rises to all its own challenges: twisty and immersive, it seduces you into a story so compelling that you aren't ready for the sucker-punch of its deeper truths. This is a hell of a debut.”

— Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions for You and The Great Believers 

"As the novel progresses so too do the secrets, lies and burning passions. You’re not sure who to believe or trust, but one thing is for sure: you won’t see the ending coming."

— Cosmopolitan UK

“A breathlessly fun, dark, and twisty tale of feminist revenge.”— Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice and More or Less Maddy

“Nothing is what it appears in this brooding story of revenge wrapped up in an homage to Fitzgerald.” — The Daily Mail