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#Queerlit Book Club

Sun, Oct 08

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Birch Tree Bookstore

Join us for a discussion of our next book, Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth.

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#Queerlit Book Club
#Queerlit Book Club

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Oct 08, 2023, 3:00 PM EDT – Oct 09, 2023, 4:30 PM EDT

Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA

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Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths.

This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever--but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.

Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in…

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