August 2025 Book Club Meetup

Join us for our August Book Club Meetup! We'll gather at We Olive & Wine Bar to discuss The Briar Club by Kate Quinn.

This haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse may just be the exciting read you're looking for.

Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. When the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors (a perfect wife, policeman's daughter, baseball star, and gangster's girlfriend) into unlikely friendship. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own.

The author, Kate Quinn, is a New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and the book club favorite, The…