Chanel Bonfire: A Book Club Recommendation!

In this searing and darkly witty memoir, Wendy Lawless recounts her unconventional and often heartbreaking childhood with a glamorous but unstable, alcoholic, and suicidal mother—a real-life blend of Holly Golightly and Mommie Dearest—and the resilience that allowed her to survive.

Georgann Rea didn’t bake cookies or attend PTA meetings. She wore mink, smoked Dunhills from a silver holder, and moved through 1960s Manhattan society with icy elegance and reckless abandon. Beautiful, volatile, ...