The Third Street Book Club

“Utterly compelling, wickedly funny, and achingly wise about friendship, marriage, gossip, parenting, mortality, and the messy, often excruciating business of loving other people.” (Leslie Jamison) Every month, Sara, Agatha, Daphne, Liz, Josie, and Carolina meet—as book clubs do—to discuss their latest read but mostly to gossip over wine. It's a comfortable routine and, until chaos strikes, "book club" nicely papers over the parts of their lives best left uninspected--the secrets and tangled histories of their friendships, marriages, careers, motherhoods, and more. But when Josie's husband abruptly leaves her for Carolina, and their lives begin to intersect and come undone in ways they couldn't have foreseen, the remaining book club members must try to make sense of what has transpired. For each of them, this rupture in the fabric of their community surfaces her own private dramas.