The Meryl Streep Movie Club
, by March, Mia- ISBN: 9781451655391 | 1451655398
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/19/2012
In the bestselling tradition of The Friday Night Knitting Club and The Jane Austen Book Club, three women find unexpected answers, happiness, and one another, using Meryl Streep's movies as their inspiration. Three estranged female relativestwo sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedyare summoned home to their aunt's inn on the coast of Maine. Thirty-one-year-old Isabel Nash McNeal is reeling from her husband's affair, but a secret pact she made years ago may keep her from the one thing she wants most. Twenty-eight-year-old single mother June Nash promised her young son she'll finally track down his father, and her search will lead her where she least expects it. Their cousin, twenty-five-year old Kat Weller, rocked by her mother's shocking announcement and the arrival of her cousins, accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposalthen has her "yes" tested in ways she never imagined. Every Friday night, Isabel, June, and Kat reluctantly get together to watch the films of their family matriarch's favorite actressMeryl Streepand find themselves sharing secrets, talking long into the night, and questioning everything they thought they knew about one another, life, and love. Through surprising and heartfelt discussions of movies such as Out of Africa, The Bridges of Madison County, and Mamma Mia, the three women unexpectedly discover who they really are and what they truly want.