Introduce yourself to Elizabeth Gilbert's novel "City of Girls" (2016) with a book-club discussion of its first line and opening pages.

Texts also mentioned in passing -- Eat Pray Love, Educated (non-fiction), Committed (non-fiction), Signature of All Things, The Nightingale, All the Light You Cannot See, Stage Door (movie), Marked Woman (movie), Guys & Dolls (musical, movie), The Ring and the Book (poem), Aurora Leigh (poem), Bridges of Madison County, Madame Bovary, Don Quixote, and Jude the Obscure, "Any Fool Can Get into an Ocean" (poem).

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