This month we will be discussing: "The Bri ar Club" by Kate Quinn\, available on our \;library website \;and&nbs p\;Libby
\nPlot: "Washingto n\, D.C.\, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House\, a down- at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation&rsquo\;s capital\, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the love ly\, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic\, she draws her odd ball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beau ty Fliss whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wound s\; police officer&rsquo\;s daughter Nora\, who is entangled with a shadow y gangster\; frustrated baseball star Bea\, whose career has ended along w ith the women&rsquo\;s baseball league of WWII\; and poisonous\, gung-ho A rlene\, who has thrown herself into McCarthy&rsquo\;s Red Scare.
\nG race&rsquo\;s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea b ecome a healing balm on all their lives\, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears apart the house\, the Br iar Club women must decide once and for all: Who is the true enemy in thei r midst?" (Goodreads.com)
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