Book Club - The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah

Schedule

Tue Mar 10 2026 at 05:45 pm to 07:30 pm

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Compass Point home of Dirty Girl Adventures | Topeka, KS

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Join Compass Point home of Dirty Girl Adventures, for our Book Club Meeting. We're reading The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah.
About this Event

Join us for our bi-monthly Book Club! Tuesday, March 10th, from 5:45- 7:30.

You are welcome to bring your dinner or snacks to the book club; feel free to bring a friend as well!

The bar is open during book club with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

This is a free event! Everyone is welcome!

Somehow, many of us missed this Kristin Hannah novel published in 2004. Sounds like a good one!

The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah - Summary from Goodreads

The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always “the princess” of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold. High School. College. Marriage. Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didn’t work out that way for Angie. She and her husband tried desperately to have a child; year after year, their perfectly decorated nursery remained empty. Finally, their marriage collapsed under the weight of lost dreams.
After the divorce, Angie moved back to her hometown and rejoined her loud, loving, slightly crazy family. In West End, a place where life rises and falls in time with the tides, she will find the man who once again will open her heart to love . . . and meet the girl who will change Angie’s life.
Lauren Ribido lives in a rundown apartment in a bad part of town with a mother who cares more about her next drink than about her daughter. At seventeen, Lauren knows that her aspirations in life may never come to pass.
From the moment they meet, Angie sees something special in Lauren. They form a quick connection: this woman who is desperate for a daughter and the girl who has never known a mother’s love. When Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie doesn’t hesitate to offer the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. In a dramatic turn of events, she and Lauren will be tested in a way that mothers and daughters seldom are. Together they will embark on an intensely moving, deeply emotional journey to the very heart of what it means to be a family.

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