“A good book’s job is to expose real lives” says Laura Pritchett, who joins Suzanne Lang in conversation at Pegasus Books in Berkeley on Pritchett’s latest book Red Lightning. Author and conservationist, Pritchett is the award winning author of Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, Stars Go Blue, and Sky Bridge. Also featured is Nina Ansary, named one of the 21 most influential people in the 21st Century Her book, The Jewells of Allah, the Untold Story of Women in Iran cracks open our assumptions and reveals an Islamic Feminism that continues to grow in the midst of patriarchy.