EWB July Book Club: Every Step She Takes

Join Endless Wonders Books for our July book club meeting! We will be discussing Alison Cochrun's queer romcom, Every Step She Takes.
About this Event

Endless Wonders Books is a trans, queer, and neurodivergent-owned microbookshop in the Montavilla neighborhood of Portland with a mission to center and uplift marginalized stories and creators.

Our book club meets monthly. Each month, we rotate themes or genres and the book club pick is voted on. Masks are required for our book club meetings.

For July, we will be reading and discussing Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun. If you purchase the book through our shop, you get 10% off. We offer free local bike delivery, in store pickup, or shipping.

Synopsis:

A swoon-worthy sapphic romance following two women who are thrown together on a European adventure, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the "sexy, insightful, and utterly charming" (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me.

Thirty-five-year-old Seattleite Sadie Wells needs an escape. She's desperate to escape her monotonous routines, the family business that has consumed her entire life, and the unexpected gay panic that has her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. So when her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal's Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all.

After three glasses of wine on the plane and some turbulence convince Sadie she won't even survive the flight, she confesses all her secrets to her seatmate, Mal. The problem: the plane doesn't crash, and it turns out Mal is on her Camino tour. Worst of all, Sadie learns that she is on a tour specifically for queer women, and that her two-hundred-mile trek will be a journey of self-discovery, whether she wants it to be or not.

Fascinated by the woman who drunkenly came out to her on the plane, Mal offers to help Sadie relive the queer adolescence she missed out on as they walk the Camino. As Sadie develops her newfound confidence, Mal grapples with a complicated loss and unexpected inheritance. But as their relationship blurs the lines between reality and practice, they both must decide if they will forever part at the end of the tour or chart a new course together.

With "funny, poignant" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) prose, Alison Cochrun explores the power of letting go of your past and realizing that it's never too late to live as your authentic self.