The book Club (2013)
“It’s been half a year since I’ve been to a meeting. The women will be kind, I know. Solicitous, perhaps even wary not to say anything that will bring to mind my tragedy. I hope I don’t see pity in their eyes. It is not pity I need now but understanding. Tender words and outstretched hands that will help me break my long isolation and rekindle the kinship with my friends.
And we are friends. Doris and I began the club out of desperation fifteen years ago. We were both new mothers living on t...he same block with a need for companionship, intellectual stimulation—and baby-sitters. Back in 1983, the club was really a combination Book-La Leche-Baby-sitting Club. The Book Club grew as our children did, new members joining, old members moving away, but always the core remained: me, Doris, Midge and Gabriella. And now Annie. We’ve gone through meetings where many of us had a child locked to our breasts, meetings where someone nodded, half-awake, on the sofa after a night up with a sick child, and meetings where, for no explicable reason, we drank too much wine and barely discussed the books at all.MoreLess
And we are friends. Doris and I began the club out of desperation fifteen years ago. We were both new mothers living on t...he same block with a need for companionship, intellectual stimulation—and baby-sitters. Back in 1983, the club was really a combination Book-La Leche-Baby-sitting Club. The Book Club grew as our children did, new members joining, old members moving away, but always the core remained: me, Doris, Midge and Gabriella. And now Annie. We’ve gone through meetings where many of us had a child locked to our breasts, meetings where someone nodded, half-awake, on the sofa after a night up with a sick child, and meetings where, for no explicable reason, we drank too much wine and barely discussed the books at all.MoreLess
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