May Book Pick: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

Washington, DC, 1950. When the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room at Briarwood House, an all-female rooming house, she draws her collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: Fliss, a harried new mother; Bea, a former pro baseball player; Claire, a file clerk for Sen. Margaret Chase Smith; Nora, an employee of the National Archives; and Arlene, a secretary for the House Un-American Activities Committee who’s embraced the rhetoric of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Grace’s dinner parties become a balm on all their lives, but she hides a secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must decide: who is the true enemy in their midst?

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