Revolutionary Road -- Richard Yates

Thank you to everyone for participating in today’s meeting. Let's now switch to a novel as we continue to explore the themes of decision making and the different paths we can take in life. Our next book will be Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road. For those who don't have time to read the book, there is also a movie. So, feel free to watch the movie instead. (Also, my birthday will be a few days before this meeting. So, maybe we will mix it up post-meeting and do something different than usual to celebrate.)

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.

"The Great Gatsby of my time... one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five

Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.