Join the AM Book Club to discuss The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Warner. Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, DC and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in...
Join the AM Book Club to discuss Pandor’s Jar: Women in Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes. Classicist Haynes provides an entertaining and thought-provoking look at the origins of mythic female characters. Why is Jocasta, mother of Oedipus, at once the cleverest person in the story...
Join the AM Book Club to discuss Portrait of an Unknown Lady by María Gainza. In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of...
Join the AM Book Club to discuss The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See. In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. Life goes on as it has for generations—until a...
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Join the AM Book Club to discuss Writers and Lovers by Lily King. In the summer of 1997, Casey arrives in Massachusetts without a plan. Following her mother’s death and a wrecked love affair, she’s living in a tiny room and waiting tables, while working on...
Join the AM Book Club to discuss The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larsen. It's an intimate story of Churchill, his family, and his cabinet over a single year during the Battle of Britain in WWII. A long but terrific read. All residents of Fearrington Village...
Join the AM Book Club to discuss Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder. Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, the author tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts....
Join the AM Book Club to discuss Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell. Drawing on the author’s long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. All residents...