Join Our Women's Book Club: Deep Reflections & Community
Brought to you by Jamie Fletcher and Sevren Lab of The Flourishing Way.
Join us every six weeks for a unique gathering of women dedicated to exploring our roles, values, and purpose through the power of literature. Our book club is more than just a reading group; it’s a space for deep reflection, meaningful conversations, and intentional community-building. Each meeting revolves around a thoughtfully chosen theme, with curated reflections designed to help us connect on a profound level.
Together, we will nurture our shared passion for learning and growing, creating a supportive environment where every voice is heard and valued. Let’s embark on this journey of discovery and empowerment, one book at a time.
November Session
Tis the Season… to Explore Family Dysfunction!
As the year winds down and we gather with our own wonderfully chaotic families, what better time to dive into stories that remind us—hey, it could be worse?
We’re ending the year with two compelling reads that unpack the tangled threads of Family Dynamics and Dysfunction, Class and Privilege, Identity and Self-Perception, and Trauma and Its Lingering Effects. These novels don’t just tell great stories—they offer rich, thought-provoking material for discussion, revealing how personal and societal forces collide to shape our lives.
These books will have you reflecting, cringing, and maybe even feeling a little better about your own family drama.
Trust us—after reading these, your family might not seem so bad after all.
Let the literary therapy begin!
Long Island Compromise
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.
But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all.
Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s pathology that she has come to define it.
As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives’ successes and failures.
Cost is $15 per series. Book sold separately.
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