![]() ![]() Be forewarned there is drug use, promiscuity, and adultery. There are other interesting characters, but I don’t want to give too much away. Ava thinks Maggie is in Italy, and only finds out about Paris when she gets a phone call saying Maggie’s missing. As Ava sorts through her life, we are introduced to Maggie, her 20 something rebellious daughter, who is in Paris and continuing to make a mess out of her life with drugs and bad choices in men. At the first meeting of the book club everyone picks a book that had the most influence on them, Ava picks the one she read as a child that spoke to her after her mother’s death. Her mother owned a bookstore, but she died after Ava’s little sister died. When Ava was a child, books were a source of comfort for her. ![]() She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City. Her most recent books are the memoirs Fly Girl A Memoir and Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food. She is lonely and seeks company in a book club that her closest friend leads. Ann Hood is the author of the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Obituary Writer, and The Knitting Circle, and the memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief. The main character Ava is reeling from her husband leaving her for another woman. I’m glad I didn’t and the ending was worth all the emotional ups and downs. This was the type of novel I almost stopped reading because I was getting too depressed about what was happening in the characters lives. ![]()
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