Historical Fiction · Free kit
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Concordia, Virginia, 1963: Margaret Ryan has the station wagon, the children, the picturesque suburb — and a nameless hunger she can't put on the grocery list. When intriguing new neighbor Charlotte Gustafson arrives, Margaret invents a book club and ropes in Viv Buschetti and Bitsy Cobb. They christen themselves the Bettys, open Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, and discover that friendship, cocktails, and the right book can turn a "perfect" year into a free one.
“On paper, she has it all. So why doesn't that feel like enough?”
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Plan your meeting
The Book Club for Troublesome Women This or That
Answer in under three seconds. No wrong answers — only revealing ones.
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Rapid fire (60 seconds)
Read these aloud as fast as the group can shout answers.
- 1. Feminine Mystique or Safe classic novel?
- 2. Cocktails at club or Coffee only?
- 3. Host in the living room or Rotate houses?
- 4. Station wagon life or City apartment life?
- 5. Write in secret or Write in public?
- 6. Coffee klatch or Bettys meeting?
- 7. New neighbor mystery or Old friends only?
- 8. Warm hopeful tone or Bleak realist tone?
- 9. Return to a career or Invent a new one?
- 10. Argue at book club or Keep it polite?