THE BOOK CLUB EDIT
There is a certain kind of journey, presence and companionship that only a good book can offer.
This pause, and the desire to explore our interests more deeply, inspire the space we seek to dedicate to encouraging good reading. It is a pursuit of discipline and the critical thinking we develop through reading.
Communities and book clubs help us refine our reading ritual.
Here, we open our space and invite friends, clients and inspiring women to recommend books on their lists or part of their journeys as readers.
YESTERYEAR Caro Claire Burke
Natalie Heller Mills turned the fantasy of the perfect traditional wife into content, influence and a business. Until she wakes up in 1855, inside the past she has spent her life romanticizing.
Part satire and part psychological suspense, Yesteryear brings the performance of femininity, domestic labor, religion, motherhood and the carefully edited aesthetics of tradwives to the table.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF RITUALS: A TOPOLOGY OF THE PRESENT Byung-Chul Han
A brief book with a long life after its final page.
Byung-Chul Han considers what we lose when shared gestures no longer structure our time: continuity, belonging, presence and community.
THE CENTURY OF IMBECILES Valter Hugo Mãe
Agilulfo, the Marquis of Malandrinha, becomes more lucid as he climbs the mountain, and more foolish whenever he descends. The absurd premise gives rise to a lyrical, ironic and uncomfortably timely fable.
Amid power, vanity, knowledge and collective behavior, Valter Hugo Mãe turns ignorance into a choice and makes us ask why it can be so seductive precisely in the information age.
STRANGERS: A MEMOIR OF A MARRIAGE Belle Burden
Belle Burden believed she knew her own story until the abrupt end of a twenty-year marriage forced her to reread everything that had seemed secure.
More than a memoir about betrayal, Strangers explores the silences, concessions and versions of ourselves we construct within a relationship. Above all, it is a book about reclaiming authorship of one's own life.
EDUCATED Tara Westover
Raised in a survivalist family isolated in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover entered a classroom for the first time at seventeen. Years later, she would study at Harvard and earn a doctorate at Cambridge.
Educated reveals the intimate cost of learning to name what shaped us, and realizing that knowing more can make it impossible to return to who we once were.
Education as expansion, freedom and, inevitably, rupture.
In search of a more conscious path of expansion, our interest grows in readings and themes that reorganize the way we see.
The more stimulation, the greater the desire to escape everything predictable and perceive time, the body and space as a different form of connection.
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