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Thursday, January 8/ 6:00 pm The Book Club for Troublesome Women, by Marie Bostwick

By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman's dream. She has a husband,
three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia--one of Northern Virginia's most
exclusive and picturesque suburbs. She has a standing invitation to the neighborhood coffee
klatch, and now, thanks to her husband, a new subscription to A Woman's Place--a magazine that
tells housewives like Margaret exactly who to be and what to buy. On paper, she has it all. So
why doesn't that feel like enough? Margaret is thrown for a loop when she first meets Charlotte
Gustafson, Concordia's newest and most intriguing resident. As an excuse to be in the mysterious
Charlotte's orbit, Margaret concocts a book club get-together and invites two other neighborhood
women--Bitsy and Viv--to the inaugural meeting. As the women share secrets, cocktails, and
their honest reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique, they begin to
discover that the American dream they'd been sold isn't all roses and sunshine--and that their
secret longing for more is something they share.