We all agreed that The Chaperone was a welcome change from the books we had been reading. The majority of the story takes place in the 1920s, when corsets were the norm and the bob-haired flappers were beginning to make an appearance.
The story surrounds an empty-nester woman (at the mere age of 36) who chaperones a 15-year-old Louise Brooks to New York City for a summer.
Something that made the book really interesting was that Louise Brooks was a real woman!
She was an American dancer and actress, starring the lead role in a few films as well as the lead in eight silent films.
All of us liked the book, some more than others. Personally, I loved it. The idea of women in that time, as well as the manners they were expected to uphold just astounded me. I mean, never going out of the house unless your hair was pinned up? Gah!
Some topics of discussion were:
- Gay rights (you'd have to read it)
- Women's rights
- Prohibition
- Sexual abuse
- How society knows so much these days that secrets don't stay secrets
The average score on a 1-10 scale was a...
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