Book Club
Date and Time:
Date: 10/16/2024
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location:
Picnic Wine & Provisions
7301 Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Our Kind of Game by Johanna Copeland
A gifted new suspense writer makes her sizzling debut with this serpentine tale exploring all how men enact violence on women, how women try to reclaim their sense of self, and the lingering effects on their children’s lives.
This particular author is connected to Picnic in many ways. Johanna and Liz go way back—brought together by their parents’ close friendship since they were toddlers. Their mothers remain close friends to this day. Recently, Johanna and her partner Jay joined the Picnic Travel group for a special Brooks Wine Dinner in Oregon while touring her book during their trip to the Willamette Valley.
Johanna will join us via Zoom for a special Q&A during the discussion. Join us for a special discussion of the book over wine!
About the Book:
Stella Parker has the life she’s always wanted: a loving husband, two happy children that she gave up her thriving law career to raise, and a beautiful
house in the tony suburbs of Washington, DC. But when her neighbor Gwen shows up at her door, claiming to know things about her, Stella’s life is thrown into turmoil and she’s forced to reckon with the dark secret upon which she’s built her life.
1987. Julie Waits yearns to be a cheerleader—a gateway to a world of normalcy with best friends and sleepovers, and an escape hatch from life with her widowed mother, the terrible men she attracts, and the upheaval caused by their abrupt and constant moves. But when her mother decides those relationships are over, the past becomes a forbidden subject that Julie can never revisit.
As Stella probes deeper into what brought Gwen to her door, the answer—and who Julie is to her—become increasingly, terrifyingly, clear.
Filled with shocking twists and turns, this is a book that both asks what it means for a woman to be in control of her life while also highlighting the impact of small daily violences upon women, and the connection between physical and psychological harm
