November Pride Book Club: Chosen Family By Madeline Gray

Join us to discuss this exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years. Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls’ high school during their first year there, both their lives are changed forever.

Also this week in Des Moines

• Des Moines Symphony: Beautiful Monsters – John Williams & Symphonie Fantastique Sat, Oct 31
• Day of the Dead 2026: ¡Sí Se Puede! Sun, Nov 1
• Iowa Wild vs. Charlotte Sun, Nov 1

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