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Admission with book: $32.50 - includes one hardcover copy of UNREASONABLE WOMEN and sales tax.

Admission only: $10

For more information & tickets, please visit Oblong Book's website: https://oblongbooks.com/event/2026-06-17/justine-van-der-leun-unreasonable-women

A percentage of ticket proceeds will be donated to support Grace Smith House, serving Dutchess County.

A work of literary reportage that reads like a crime novel, Unreasonable Women is the result of seven years of unprecedented research and on-the-ground reporting on women being imprisoned for protecting themselves against abuse. It is a wake-up call about a broken system, and the moving narrative of three women who find hope and humanity in the unlikeliest of places.

Justine van der Leun is a journalist and the author of several books, including We Are Not Such Things. She is also the host of the podcast Believe Her. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, New York Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, and The Guardian. She has received fellowships from New America, the Emerson Collective, and PEN America, among others. She lives in New York.

Michelle Horton is a writer and advocate living in New York's Hudson Valley with her son, nephew, and niece. She is the author of Dear Sister. Through the Nicole Addimando Community Defense Committee, Horton continues to speak out for her sister and the countless other victims of domestic violence criminalized for their acts of survival.