For January we will be reading Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg.

The heroine is a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery. Among the colorful cast of characters are: Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena's exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Dena's success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookie's a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever .    Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise .    Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s     Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.

Order book here ---> Welcome to the World, Baby Girl

The Northfield Library Contemporary Women Writers Book Group meets eleven times a year, January through November.  

We meet at the Northfield Public Library in the Bunday Meeting Room.

For further information please contact Joan Ennis at jcennisbooks@gmail.com