Call Book Passage, Corte Madera (415) 927-0960 ext.1, to reserve. The ticket price of $60 includes an outstanding lunch catered by Insalata’s Restaurant & an autographed copy of Joyce Maynard’s book.
The Women’s National Book Association launched National Reading Group Month in October of 2007 to celebrate the organization’s ninetieth birthday. This year, WNBA will continue its tradition of promoting women and the book and literacy in general by hosting events in their chapter cities: Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
Once again, master storyteller, Joyce Maynard, has delivered a riveting novel of domestic disturbance and fraught family relationships told in her inimitably clear, compelling style. The premise of THE GOOD DAUGHTERS is deceptively simple: Two baby girls are born on the same day in 1950 in the same small New Hampshire hospital. But they are born into families that could hardly have been less alike. The echoes and aftershocks of this seemingly random occurrence will resonate through the lives of the girls and their families––in ways both prosaic and profound for decades.
THE GOOD DAUGHTERS is a chronicle of the unlikely ways the two women’s lives intersect––from childhood and adolescence to first loves, first sex, marriage, and parenthood; from the deaths of parents to divorce, the loss of home, and the loss of a beloved partner––until an unavoidable moment when a long-held secret from the past alters everything.
WILLIAM MORROW
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
About the Author: Joyce Maynard has been a reporter for The New York Times, a magazine journalist, radio commentator, and syndicated columnist, as well as the author of six novels and four books of nonfiction. Her bestselling memoir, At Home in the World, has been translated into eleven languages. She lives in Mill Valley, California.
WNBA-SF is a non-profit organization that fosters professional development and exposure of our members through a variety of book-related programs, workshops, and hands-on opportunities to make valuable contacts and connections that are beneficial at any stage of one’s career. WNBA-SF is part of a National network promoting the value of books and reading since 1917 throughout ten chapters stretching from coast to coast. Annual Membership is $45.
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