The Society of Shame
โ Scribed by Jane Roper
- Book ID
- 111356277
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 400 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593468777
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
" If you liked Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, read The Society of Shame by Jane Roper." --The Washington Post
In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's "feminine hygiene malfunction" catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social media stardom and internet activism, and a tender mother-daughter tale.
Kathleen Held's life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband on the front lawn in his underwear. But the scandal that emerges is not that Bill, who's running for Senate, is having a painfully cliched affair with one of his young staffers: it's that the eyewitness photographing the scene accidentally captures a period stain on the back of Kathleen's pants.
Overnight, Kathleen finds herself the unwitting figurehead for a...
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