SIS-Book SEP16

When

Tuesday September 20, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM PDT
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Where

The Home of Sandy Shalon 
5160 Canyon Crest
San Ramon, CA 94582
 

 
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Contact

Sandy Shalon, Host 
BCC Sisterhood 
sshalonmail@gmail.com 

 

 

SISTERHOOD SEPTEMBER BOOK GROUP 

Looking to lose yourself in a good book, and find some good friends in the process? Join us for book group. Held monthly and hosted by various group attendees at their homes.

This month's selection is Guest Room, by Chris Chris Bohjalian

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room; two women are on the run from police; and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.

When Richard Chapman offers to host his younger brother's bachelor party, he expects a certain amount of debauchery. He sends his wife, Kristin, and young daughter off to his mother-in-law's for the weekend, and he opens his Westchester home to his brother's friends and their hired entertainment. What he does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, a dangerously intimate moment in his guest bedroom, and two naked women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. In the aftermath, Richard's life rapidly spirals into a nightmare. The police throw him out of his home, now a crime scene; his investment banking firm puts him on indefinite leave; and his wife finds herself unable to forgive him for the moment he shared with a dark-haired girl in the guest room. But the dark-haired girl, Alexandra, faces a much graver danger. In one breathless, violent night, she is free, running to escape the police who will arrest her and the gangsters who will kill her in a heartbeat. A captivating, chilling story about shame and scandal, The Guest Room is a riveting novel from one of our greatest storytellers. (less)

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The book is currently available for ordering online and in digital format, or through the Contra Costa County library sistem.

The event starts at 7:00 pm.