Her Book Club will meet and discussing the following books in April and May: - 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24 @ River Lights The Painted Girls, by Cathy Marie Buchanan cathymariebuchanan/books/the-painted-girls A heartrending, gripping novel set in belle époque Paris and inspired by the real-life model for Degas’s Little Dancer Aged 14 and by the eras most famous criminal trials. Following their father’s sudden death, the Van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where she will be trained to enter the famous Ballet and meet Edgar Degas. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds employment—and the love of a dangerous young man—as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s Naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir. Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change,The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of “civilized society.” - 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 22 @ River Lights The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan goodreads/book/show/17573685-the-feminine-mystique It is the 50th anniversary of this 1960s book. An interesting insight into the birth of feminism, it should give us a lot to chat about! Looking forward to see you all then!
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