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SUMMARY:Mostly Fiction Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Mostly Fiction Book Club\nSEP 12\, 2023/6:00 PM–07:30 PM \nLOCATION \nTerrace Room \nCONTACT \nBarbara Clark-Greene \nJoin us for this month’s book discussion\, new members always welcome! \nThis month we’ll be discussing The Elissas by Samantha Leach. \nBustle editor Samantha Leach and her childhood best friend\, Elissa\, met as infants in the suburbs of Providence\, Rhode Island\, where they attended nursery\, elementary school\, and temple together. As seventh graders\, they would steal drinks from bar mitzvahs and have boys over in Samantha’s basement—innocent\, early acts of rebellion. But after one of their shared acts\, Samantha was given a disciplinary warning by their private school while Elissa was dismissed altogether\, and later sent away. Samantha did not know then\, but Elissa had just become one of the fifty-thousand-plus kids per year who enter the Troubled Teen Industry: a network of unregulated programs meant to reform wealthy\, wayward youth. \nLess than a year after graduation from Ponca Pines Academy\, Elissa died at eighteen years old. In Samantha’s grief\, she fixated on Elissa’s last years at the therapeutic boarding school\, eager to understand why their paths diverged. As she spoke to mutual friends and scoured social media pages\, Samantha learned of Alyssa and Alissa\, Elissa’s closest friends at the school who shared both her name and penchant for partying\, where drugs and alcohol became their norm. The matching Save Our Souls tattoo all three girls also had further fueled Samantha’s fixation\, as she watched their lives play out online. Four years after Elissa’s death\, Alyssa died\, then Alissa at twenty-six. \nIn The Elissas\, Samantha endeavors to understand why they ultimately met a shared\, tragic fate that she was spared\, in turn\, offering a chilling account of the secret lives of young suburban women. \n 
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LOCATION:Westerly Library & Wilcox Park\, 44 Broad Street\, Westerly\, CT\, 02891\, United States
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