Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club: February 2025

Posted February 5, 2025 by Prairie Wife -

It’s time to announce our book for the Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club: February 2025

This monthly Virtual Book Club is all thanks to Wind City Books, an Indie Bookstore in Downtown Casper, Wyoming.

Miranda from Wind City Books can ship our book club book WHEREVER YOU LIVE, so please use the link provided below to purchase your Prairie Wife Book Club books. I strongly encourage buying your book from Wind City Books. You’ll be supporting a local Indie Bookstore, and they can quickly ship the book directly to your home. If you order now, you’ll receive it in plenty of time to finish it before book club. You can also listen to the book through Libro.fm  It works just like Audible, but you have the option to support your local Indie Bookstore with your purchases.

So, how does The Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club Work?

It’s easy (I promise) and available to ANYONE who wants to join.

You don’t need social media because we’re doing it all with Zoom!

At our hour-long Virtual Book Club meeting, we will heavily discuss this month’s book using the questions given below the review as a guide.

HERE IS THE ZOOM LINK FOR THIS MONTH’S VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2025 7 PM MST

The Many Daughters of Afong May by Jamie Ford

For February, Miranda (the owner of Wind City Books) and I decided that a romance novel would be the perfect read for our Virtual Book Club. There were so many good ones to choose from that I struggled to choose just one. In the end, I found this book the most intriguing, mainly because it seems to have some Historical Fiction thrown in with the plot!

Here’s what the publisher had to say:

Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.

As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help.

Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America.

As the painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period—a stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Can Dorothy break the cycle of pain and abandonment to finally find peace for her daughter and love for herself? Or will she end up paying the ultimate price?

PREP QUESTIONS FOR OUR VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB MEETING

• What do you think of the book’s title?
  • How does it relate to the book’s contents?
  • What other title might you choose?
• Which characters did you like best?
• Were there any characters that disappointed you?
• Are there any characters you wish you could meet in real life?
• What was your favorite part of the book?
• What did you think of the writing?
  • Are there any standout sentences?
• Did this book remind you of any other books?
• If you could ask the author anything, what would it be?

I hope you can join us for our second meeting of the year, our Virtual Book Club, February 2025, on the 25th!

Looking for more books to read? Try these suggestions!

Categories: Book Reviews, Reviews

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