Core Connects RI Book Group
Mon, Oct 18
|Zoom
Please join us for Core Connects RI book group discussion on Hanna Halpern's new book, "Something Wild." Based on a true story.


Time & Location
Oct 18, 2021, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Zoom
Guests
About the Event
Please join the Core Connects RI Book Group which plans to meet on Zoom to discuss Hanna Halpern's book, "Something Wild." A searing novel about the love and contradictions of sisterhood, the intoxicating desires of adolescence, and the traumas that trap mothers and daughters in cycles of violence
One weekend, sisters Tanya and Nessa Bloom pause their respective adult lives and travel to the Boston suburbs to help their mother pack up and move out of their childhood home. For the first time since they were teenagers sharing a bunk bed over a decade ago, they find themselves in the place where long-kept secrets were born, where jealousy, comfort, anger, forgiveness, and repulsion coexist with the fiercest love and loyalty. What they don't expect is for their visit to expose a new, horrifying truth: their mother, Lorraine, is in a violent relationship.
As Tanya urges Lorraine to get a restraining order, Nessa struggles…