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Join us for an in-person *Strong Women* Book Club Discussion for Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel on Sunday, July 26th from 11-1 pm at Patina Wine Bar in Park Ridge!
PRE-READING IS RECOMMENDED FOR THIS EVENT…
Local Book Lovers will gather to discuss Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel with our Strong Women Book Club Group at Patina Wine Bar (112 S Prospect Avenue), where they can also opt to taste some themed bites + bevys inspired by the characters, plots and settings of the story. Guests will get a FREE TAKE-AWAY GIFT + EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS FROM OUR BOOKTIQUE!
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel, an exuberant and timely new novel...
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas - that would be her three grown children - but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.
As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubber-neckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make - and some she’s not allowed to make.
Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks - even so late in the day - can still change, and then change everything.
RECOMMENDED FOR: Grown-Ups
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Publish Date: May 05, 2026
Pages: 304
Dimensions: 9.57 X 6.31 X 0.79 inches | 1.07 pounds
Language: English
Type: Hardcover
Condition: NEW
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