BOOK CLUB | October
October 1, 2024: After Annie by Anna Quindlen. Janet Robinson will lead the discussion for the October meeting.
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie’s best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie’s support. It is Annie’s daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to maintain some semblance of their former lives for them all, and who confronts the complicated truths of adulthood. Over the course of the next year what saves them all is Annie, ever-present in their minds, loving but not sentimental, caring but nobody’s fool, a voice in their heads that is funny and sharp and remarkably clear. The lesson they learn is that no one beloved is ever truly gone. The enduring power Annie gave to those who loved her is the power to love, and to go on without her. Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonant voice, and with her deep understanding of people, After Annie is a story that ends with hope. A moving novel about how adversity can change us in profound ways, and how a family pieces itself back together after monumental loss.
NOVEMBER SELECTION November 12, 2024
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. A moving story about family, youthful love, married love, and the lives parents led before their children were born.
Anna Quindlen is the author of many bestselling books, including the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Rise and Shine, Blessings, One True Thing, among others.
Sandy Hobbs will lead the discussion for the November meeting
Please join us on October 1, 2024, at 4:00 pm in the Women’s Lounge as we discuss After Annie.
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