We celebrated our 11th Anniversary and still going strong. Kathy updated our blog with some of our changes for the coming year, i.e., lunch meeting in January and February.
After reorganizing we got down to our discussion. Book this month was "The Silent Wife" by Kerry Fischer. Apparently, there were several books with this same title, different authors. Everyone seemed to enjoy the book. We had a very good discussion about the characters and how deceptive appearances could be in the case of Massimo and Lara's relationship. Lara seemed to have it all but her husband was very abusive mentally and had many secrets. Basically, in my opinion he was a creep.
When Massimo's younger brother Nico gets married and he introduces Maggie into the family so many dark secrets start to surface. Maggie tried so hard to fit in and be accepted by the family. Everyone thought she was a gold digger but in reality she was a very hard worker and very independent. She was also a good mother and a good daughter. At the end of the book, the truth comes out about all the characters.
One of the questions we discussed was "Would you risk everything for the man you love, even if you knew he did something terrible?" General consensus was it depended on how many other people itcould hurt.
Grace
