Tuesday\, September 15th\, 2PM:
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, they notice an older\, whi te-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett \, her former stepfather\, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three\, Daphne hasn't seen Eddie for many years\, not since the fateful event that changed the direc tion of both their lives. Meeting again\, time falls away\; while their re lationship was brief\, it had a profound impact on them both\, and now tha t they are reunited\, they have no intention of ever being separated again .
\nTuesday\, October 20th\, 2PM: \; Enormous Wings\, by Laurie Frankel -
\nAt seventy-seven\, Pepper Mil ls is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn't choose the Vi sta View Retirement Community of Austin\, Texas--that would be her three g rown children--but when she grudgingly moves in\, she not only makes new f riends\, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion\, vomiting\, and confusion start. Her children and grandchildren worry it's cancer\, dementia\, a st roke. But a raft of tests later\, the news is even more shocking: she's pr egnant. Once word gets out\, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and the paparazzi\, activists and medical researchers\, all descending on Vist a View as Pepper tries to determine her next move. Soon Pepper has some ha rd decisions to make-and some she's not allowed to make. Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy\, morality and mo rtality. It's about what happens when you don't get to choose. It's about motherhood and family\, sex and love and friendship\, and how those bedroc ks--even so late in the day--can still change\, and then change everything .
\nTuesday\, November 17th\, Upwa rd Bound\, by Woody Brown -
\nUpward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare cen ter for Los Angeles's disabled community is\, for many of its clients and staff\, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos\, a young aide who lo st his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister Ma riana\; Jorge\, the gentle nonspeaking giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping)\; Tom\, a beautiful young man with cerebral p alsy\, who pines for Ann\, the summer lifeguard at the center's pool who f eels out of her depth\; then there's Dave\, Upward Bound's director who ca me to L.A. to pursue an acting career but now channels his passion into st aging an overly ambitious holiday show starring the center's irrepressible clients. Framing these intertwined narratives--and connecting them in sur prising\, shattering ways--is the riveting and sometimes ironic testimony of Walter\, a recent community college graduate who\, after a family trage dy\, must return to the company of his disabled peers.
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