Picture Book owner Sara and friend-of-the-bookstore, Stephanie, host an almost monthly book club at HudCo where we discuss literary fiction, mostly written by women, over drinks and Bloomy cheese. It’s a casual, cozy night at HudCo, and all are welcome to join!
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Book Club Reviews
CURRENT READ
OUR NEXT BOOK CLUB PICK IS
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Join Sara of Picture Book, and friend-of-the-bookstore Stephanie for a casual discussion on Tuesday December 2nd, 8pm at HudCo.
The book is available to pick up in person at the shop Monday-Friday 9-5, on our website, as an EBook, and as an audiobook.
About the book:
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy.
Desiree, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays.
"All the best novels about friendship are invitations to count yourself among them, and The Wilderness is no exception; the joys and the sorrows of this book are multiplied because they are shared. Flournoy has a long-lens talent, capable of spanning great distances while keeping her characters in crisp, but always compassionate, focus, as they face the changing pressures and realities of growing up. The result is both portrait and panorama of contemporary American life." - Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries and Birnam Wood