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SUMMARY:Read Rouge by Mona Awad
DESCRIPTION:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup\nHello Amazing 
 Middle-Aged Women Readers!\nFrom a member's recommendation\, we'll dive th
 is October into a literary\, surreal\, hallucinatory\, gothic\, fairy-tale
 -infused\, and darkly comic novel!\n\nA National Bestseller\nA USA TODAY B
 estseller\nA New York Times Editors’ Choice\nA Goodreads Choice Award Fi
 nalist\nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post\, Good Housek
 eeping\, Electric Literature\, Tor\, and Literary Hub\n\nFrom the critical
 ly acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the 
 modern age” (Good Housekeeping) and “darkly funny horror novel” (NYL
 ON) about a lonely young woman who’s drawn to a cult-like spa in the wak
 e of her mother’s mysterious death. “Surreal\, scary and deeply moving
 —like all the best fairy tales” (People).\n\nA Most Anticipated Book o
 f 2023 by Time\, Vogue\, The Guardian\, Goodreads\, Bustle\, The Millions\
 , LitHub\, Tor\, Good Housekeeping\, and more!\n\nFor as long as she can r
 emember\, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare v
 ideos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies\, Belle finds he
 rself back in Southern California\, dealing with her mother’s considerab
 le debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stake
 s escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral\, offering a
  tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise\, followed by a cryptic vide
 o about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red sh
 oes\, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse\, the
  same lavish\, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There\, Belle di
 scovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession w
 ith the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on
  the other side of the glass.\n\nSnow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this s
 urreal descent into the dark side of beauty\, envy\, grief\, and the compl
 icated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive 
 horror\, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as w
 ell as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with Califo
 rnia sunshine and blood-red rose petals\, Rouge holds up a warped mirror t
 o our relationship with mortality\, our collective fixation with the surfa
 ce\, and the wondrous\, deep longing that might lie beneath.
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SUMMARY:Epic and Lovely by Mo Daviau 
DESCRIPTION:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup\nHello Middle-A
 ged Punk Rock Women!\nFor November\, we'll dive into a local author's work
 . She works at Annie Bloom's Books!\n\n"This book is a love bomb\, a love 
 bloom\, a love letter from a soul on the edge of death who talks back\, cr
 acks wise\, and throws down wisdom. Daviau reminds us that death always ki
 sses birth\, living always births dying\, crying keeps us whole\, and laug
 hter is good medicine. I swooned."\n―Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Readin
 g the Waves: A Memoir and The Chronology of Water\n\nEpic and Lovely is th
 e swan song of Nina Simone Blaine\, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vega
 s crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake of 
 her unexpected divorce\, Nina returns to her hometown of Los Angeles to sp
 end her final days with The Friends of the Good Thumb\, a support group fo
 r patients with A12 Fibrillin Deficiency Syndrome\, a genetic disorder tha
 t affects children of much-older fathers\, causes several physical deformi
 ties\, and results in death around the age of forty.\n\nWritten as a death
 bed letter to the UCLA physician who has tracked Nina and the other Good T
 humbs throughout their lives\, Nina recounts her final days with the group
  and with Cole\, the charismatic\, sadistic fellow A12er with whom she has
  fallen madly in love\, who charms and harms her in equal measures. An unl
 ikely alliance with a tech billionaire\, the return of her estranged mothe
 r\, and the birth of the baby she never thought she’d have force Nina to
  reckon with the triumphs and mistakes of her life and to fight to leave h
 er child in good hands.
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SUMMARY:Read Epic and Lovely by Mo Daviau
DESCRIPTION:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup\nHello Middle-A
 ged Punk Rock Women!\nFor November\, we'll dive into a local author's work
 . She works at Annie Bloom's Books!\n\n*"This book is a love bomb\, a love
  bloom\, a love letter from a soul on the edge of death who talks back\, c
 racks wise\, and throws down wisdom. Daviau reminds us that death always k
 isses birth\, living always births dying\, crying keeps us whole\, and lau
 ghter is good medicine. I swooned."*\n―Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Read
 ing the Waves: A Memoir and The Chronology of Water\n\nEpic and Lovely is 
 the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine\, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Ve
 gas crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake o
 f her unexpected divorce\, Nina returns to her hometown of Los Angeles to 
 spend her final days with The Friends of the Good Thumb\, a support group 
 for patients with A12 Fibrillin Deficiency Syndrome\, a genetic disorder t
 hat affects children of much-older fathers\, causes several physical defor
 mities\, and results in death around the age of forty.\n\nWritten as a dea
 thbed letter to the UCLA physician who has tracked Nina and the other Good
  Thumbs throughout their lives\, Nina recounts her final days with the gro
 up and with Cole\, the charismatic\, sadistic fellow A12er with whom she h
 as fallen madly in love\, who charms and harms her in equal measures. An u
 nlikely alliance with a tech billionaire\, the return of her estranged mot
 her\, and the birth of the baby she never thought she’d have force Nina 
 to reckon with the triumphs and mistakes of her life and to fight to leave
  her child in good hands.
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 p/events/316715655/
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SUMMARY:Read The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
DESCRIPTION:Middle Aged Women's Punk Rock Book Club Meetup\nHello Middle-A
 ged Punk Rock Women Readers!\nFor December\, we'll dive into a Louise Erdr
 ich novel!\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PI
 CK • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION\nA Best Book
  of the Year: New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Time\, Kirkus\, Harper's B
 azaar\n*"A novel set in a small prairie community. . . that somehow also c
 aptures the world."* — Parade\n\nIn this stunning novel\, Pulitzer Prize
  and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of 
 love\, natural forces\, spiritual yearnings\, and the tragic impact of unc
 ontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives.\n\nIn the Red Rive
 r Valley of North Dakota\, several lives revolve around a wedding fraught 
 with desire\, jealousy\, and uncertainty. Gary Geist\, a terrified young m
 an set to inherit two farms\, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe\, an impuls
 ive\, lapsed goth who can’t read her own future but will settle for fulf
 illing his. Her best friend\, Hugo\, a gentle\, red-haired\, homeschooled 
 giant\, also loves Kismet and is determined to steal her away and build a 
 life together. Kismet’s mother\, Crystal\, drives a truck for Gary’s f
 amily\, and on her nightly runs\, tunes in to the darkness of late-night r
 adio\, experiences visions of guardian angels\, and worries about what’s
  to come\, for her daughter and herself.\n\nThe Mighty Red is Louise Erdri
 ch at her consummate best. A novel of tender humor\, disquietude\, yearnin
 g\, community\, and family\, it is about ordinary people who dream\, grow 
 up\, fall in love\, struggle\, endure tragedy\, carry bitter secrets\; men
  and women both complicated and contradictory\, flawed and decent\, lonely
  and hopeful. Human time\, deep time\, Red River time\, and geological tim
 e are explored alongside the impact of crises in our own time—climate ch
 ange\, the depletion of natural resources\, the economic meltdown of 2008.
  It is a story about our tattered bond with the earth\, and about love in 
 all of its absurdity and splendor.
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