May Book Club

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too.
As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends—until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected.
In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life.
Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.
Marydale will be moderating this month. Hope you can join us for some thoughtful discussion.

Upcoming books: (June is book selection month.)
June: Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold (Kelly)
July: The Women: A Novel by Kristin Hannah (Roxanne)
Not selected this time:
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
How reasonable Americans could support Trump: Helping liberals understand the MAGAverse, and whatever comes next by Brian M Rees
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci M.D.
In Search of Braver Angels: Getting Along Together in Troubled Times by David Blankenhorn
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad