Books and Brunch

'Madwoman' by Chelsea Bieker

Books and Brunch is a book club that meets on the third Saturday of each month at 11:30 am.

The world is not made for mothers.
Yet, mothers made the world.

Clove (if that really is her name) has gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she’s landed the life of her dreams: a safe husband and two adoring children who will never know the terror that was routine in her own childhood. Whenever her buried anxiety threatens to breach the surface, she focuses on finding the right supplement and gratitude meditation. 

However, when she receives a letter from a women’s prison in California, her past comes screeching into the present, which entangles her in a dangerous game of memory and people she thought she had outrun. As we race between her precarious present-day life in Portland, Ore. and her childhood in a Waikiki high-rise with her mother and father, Clove is forced to finally unravel the defining day of her life. How did she survive that day, and what will it take to end the cycle of violence? Will the truth undo her, or could it ultimately save her?

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