Author and Long Beach Island nativeSusannah Marren will discuss herlatest novel, A Palm Beach Wife, on onSunday, Aug. 4 at9:30 a.m. at the JCC of Long Beach Island in Long Beach Township and on Tuesday, Aug. 6 at 4:30 p.m. at the Beach Haven Public Library.

Marren is the pen name of gender and relationship expert Susan Shapiro Barash, whose work touches onspousal loyalty, female rivalry and the complicated mother-daughter bond.