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SUMMARY:Fiction Book Club - Valley of the Moms by Hannah Selinger
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss our discussion of the most talked about book on the North Shore. \n\n\n\n\nStepford Wives meets Big Little Lies in this twisty thriller that uncovers the untruths\, petty grievances\, and local school politics underneath a seemingly quaint small town. \nCLICK HERE TO LET US KNOW YOU’RE COMING \nHamilton\, Massachusetts is one of those suburban towns that appears untouched by the outside world where stay-at-home moms wear 2ct diamond studs to the playground\, where a million-dollar property is “affordable\,” and where the Parent Teacher Organization is a hotbed of controversy. Sure\, some people struggle to make ends meet\, but residents would say discussing such ugly matters is impolite. Hamilton has been like this forever\, and everyone likes it that way. Or: almost everyone. \nIt’s not that Anna Plummer doesn’t like Hamilton\, but she never thought she’d be married with two young kids\, comfortable\, complacent…and growing more bored by the minute. So\, when she realizes her second grader won’t be able to attend the “Ziti with Your Sweetie” school dance because she didn’t pay for a “Premium” membership\, she snaps. She sends an email to the terrifying president of the PTO—and all hell breaks loose. \nOne year later\, Anna is found dead in the frozen Ipswich River. Left to pick up the pieces\, her husband\, Denny\, is shaken to his core. He’s no expert\, but he’s seen enough Dateline to know that the police think he’s the main suspect. If they aren’t going to get justice for Anna\, he will. Told through the alternating perspectives of Anna and Denny exactly one year apart\, and with a shocking concluding twist\, Valley of the Moms is a gripping look at the underpinnings of grief\, the social structures of wealth\, and the secrets people keep—even among friends and loved ones.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.live/event/fiction-book-club-valley-of-the-moms-by-hannah-selinger/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Horror Book Club - Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
DESCRIPTION:Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. \nJoin us to discuss Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep on Sunday\, August 30 at 1pm. CLICK HERE TO LET US KNOW YOU’RE COMING \n\n\n\n\nMeet Julia Flang\, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer\, living with her retired uncle\, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue\, her estranged mother\, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies\, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later\, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast. \nTo sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word\, yes. But he’s not dead dead. \nMeet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid\, morphing reality in which he’s trapped\, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember. \nUsing a cell phone modeled after a video game controller\, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls “Bernie” from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while\, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine\, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality. \nDead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady\, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.live/event/horror-book-club-dead-but-dreaming-of-electric-sheep/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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