The Third Street Book Club: A Novel

"Utterly compelling, wickedly funny, and achingly wise about friendship, marriage, gossip, parenting, mortality, and the messy, often excruciating business of loving other people." (Leslie Jamison)

Every month, Sara, Agatha, Daphne, Liz, Josie, and Carolina meet-as book clubs do-to discuss their latest read, and everything else too. It's a comfortable routine and "Book Club" nicely papers over the parts of their histories best left uninspected.

But when Josie's husband abruptly leaves her for...