Date and Time
- Monday, Apr 27, 2026 6:30pm - 8pm
Location
Wine Down SF
685 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Details
A "breakneck thriller" (Harper's Bazaar) that examines our culture's obsession with serial killers and true crime.
It's 1978. A soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends on a Florida sorority house. Sorority president and key witness Pamela Schumacher survives, but her life is forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the same man, and she's not letting it go. The two join forces in a search for answers that leads to a final, shocking confrontation. Jessica Knoll flips the script: this one's not about the killer. It's about the women who wouldn't stop until someone listened.
A New York Times Notable Book, Instant Bestseller, Edgar Award Finalist, and Best Book of the Year pick from NPR, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, and more.
Why we chose it: At Wine Down, we believe women's stories deserve to be centered, especially the ones history tried to bury. Bright Young Women does exactly that: it shifts the lens away from the killer and onto the women who refused to be defined by what happened to them. It's a story about belief, persistence, and what becomes possible when women trust and fight for each other.
