The EFC Readers: September Book Club Selection

Hi, Everyone!

I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe it is September already! Where did the time go? The EFC Readers, our Facebook reader group, had selected The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward as its August Book Club pick, but we changed it to our September selection. Here are the details for the book. Please feel free to join The EFC Readers! The discussion will be on September 30.

The Jetsetters
written by Amanda Eyre Ward
published by Ballatine Books, 2020

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About the book – from Goodreads: When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the “Become a Jetsetter” contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can’t seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she was a single mother who meant everything to them. When she wins the cruise, the family packs all their baggage—literal and figurative—and spends ten days traveling from sun-drenched Athens through glorious Rome to tapas-laden Barcelona on an over-the-top cruise ship, the Splendido Marveloso. As lovers new and old join the adventure, long-buried secrets are revealed, and the Perkins family is forced to confront the defining choices in their lives. Can four lost adults find the peace they’ve been seeking by reconciling their childhood aches and coming back to each other?

In the vein of The Nest and The Vacationers, Ward has created a delicious and intelligent novel about the courage it takes to reveal our true selves, the pleasures and perils of family, and how we navigate the seas of adulthood to cruise—we can only hope—toward joy.

 

 

The EFC Readers is a group where we can share what we are reading and talk about books and book-related topics. It also has a monthly book club. If you would like to join this community of EFC Readers, please click the image above or this link.

 

 

 

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** This post first appeared on Every Free Chance Books (everyfreechance.com) on September 7, 2020.