Summer Reading with a Stoic Twist: "Go Gentle" by Maria Semple

For our next discussion, we’ll be reading "Go Gentle" by Maria Semple, a lively contemporary novel with an unexpected Stoic angle. The book follows Adora Hazzard, a philosopher trying to live an orderly, rational life, only to find herself pulled into romance, reinvention, and more chaos than any practicing Stoic would prefer. This should make for a fun change of pace: part summer novel, part midlife transformation story, and part opportunity to ask how Stoic ideas actually hold up when life gets funny, messy, tempting, and unpredictable.