This week the Real Friends check in on their progress with Disability Visibility. Don’t forget to tune in on May 23rd for the full book discussion!
Find the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts!
May 23rd: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, edited by Alice Wong
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. In this book, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
June 13th & 27th: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Think Kill Bill meets Golden Girls.
They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they’re sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller.
July 11th & 25th: Happy Place by Emily Henry
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.
They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade…