A big Announcement from our Book Club with Mary Calvi: ClubCalvi has voted and here's the winning book for our first read!
Claire stood with her back to the bar and surveyed the pulsating mass of people deeply pleased with themselves for being exactly where they were at exactly that moment. The party was an unqualified success. She kept being congratulated, as if it took genius to send invitations, rent out a restaurant—even a hot one like Gotham—and tell her florist, . The maple branches growing out of birdcages were something, but Claire did not take pride in floral arrangements.
Claire had not read the book. As she nodded and smiled, agreeing with everyone about what a special, novel it was, this secret blasphemy twinkled pleasantly inside her. Several yards away, the author was in the crowd, holding forth. The noise of the room was too loud for Claire to hear the specifics. After a decade of marriage, Claire couldn't imagine there was a subject she had not heard Ward expound upon, but she studied him still.
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