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SUMMARY:Pride Book Club: Chosen Family\\, by Madeleine Gray
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 e&#8221\\;]Join us to discuss this exuberant and irreverently funny novel
  about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in
  Sydney across eighteen years.\\nNell Argall and Eve Bowman are both bril
 liant\\, odd\\, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield 
 that is their posh all girls’ high school during their first year there
 \\, both their lives are changed forever. From school\\, to university\\,
  to careers\\, Nell and Eve’s relationship is a life raft that is also 
 a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare\\, frozen in time.\\nWhen the
  passion\\, guilt\\, shame\\, and joy that perpetually twists and turns b
 etween them finally implodes\\, Nell abruptly walks away\\, leaving Eve a
 lone at the helm of the gloriously unorthodox family they’ve built with
  their seven-year-old daughter\\, Lake. Eve finds herself left wondering:
  Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever real
 ly understand what’s going on in someone else’s head? And what’s lo
 ve got to do\\, got to do with it?\\nWritten with Gray’s characteristic
  big-heartedness and dark wit\\, Chosen Family is a queer modern classic 
 that reminds us again and again that sometimes the most fulfilling and li
 fe-saving relationships are the ones that are the hardest to define.[/vc_
 column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/uni
 ted-states/des-moines/events/pride-book-club-chosen-family-by-madeleine-g
 ray-2026-11-11
LOCATION:Capital City Pride Des Moines
URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/des-moines/events/pride-book-club-chosen-family-by-madeleine-gray-2026-11-11
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