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Fnnc
Distance: 32.6 Mi1111 Junewood Ct
93030 Oxnard -
Bridgebuilders
Distance: 33.8 MiPO Box 50240
93031-0240 Oxnard -
SCVi Charter School
Distance: 61.2 Mi28060 Hasley Canyon Rd
91384-4572 Castaic -
Arts In Education Aid Council, Inc
Distance: 64.3 Mi22148 Sherman Way # 207
91303 Canoga Park -
CHIME Institute
Distance: 67.9 MiPO Box 280310
91328-0310 Northridge
Starshine Roshell
- 122 W Figueroa St
- Santa Barbara, California
- 93101-3106
- Phone: 805.965.5205
- Website
Description
It was morning when the email arrived, its subject line blaring like a Helvetica horn: "Emergency Book Club Meeting Tonight." I hadn't drained my first cup of coffee, and now I didn't need to; there are few five-word phrases that set my adrenaline surging like this one. It's a laughable notion, I realize. What sort of event spurs a frantic gathering of book group members? An abominable mis-casting for the movie version of The Glass Castle? A global embargo of pinot grigio? But the Emergency Book Club Meeting is not something to be taken lightly. In six years, our literature-loving girl gang has called just three of these urgent rallies, each time for a life-altering predicament affecting one of our members and thoroughly outraging the rest of our close-knit sisterhood. "Ladies," the most recent email began, "one of our own is facing a crisis situation and could use all the support and love we can offer." The crisis: a cheating husband. More specifically, a self-involved man-child who navigated through his midlife crisis by using his wilson as a compass.