Book Club for Troublesome Women

Even so, the declarations she encountered there were electric, jolting a shrouded, dormant part of her brain to life with ideas that seemed utterly fresh but also uncannily familiar. For four uncertain, troubled years, everybody had done their job and their share, pulling in the same direction even when they were apart, and had come out on the other side, united in purpose and together again, a family. Each chapter gave voice to the thoughts of a family member or wedding guest as they listened to the ceremony. Margaret hugged her knees to her chest, thinking back to the day he’d proposed, how relieved she’d been that Walt had finally come to his senses and settled on a profession that could support a family, that could support her.