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Come join our book club for a discussion of Root, Petal, Thorn by Ella Joy Olsen.
The house on Downington Avenue in Salt Lake City was the place Ivy Baygren hoped to renovate with her husband. Yet a month after Adam collapsed and died, Ivy herself is on the verge of collapse. When her children panic and call in her brother, he urges her to get her house in order. For Ivy, that means discovering the stories behind it, and those of the women who lived there before her. Who was Emmeline, who resided there in 1913 and planted the still-thriving Emmeline rose? What tale is behind the memory book ? Who was the World War II wife and mother? On move-in day, Ivy had glimpsed the woman who sold her the house, but she doesn't know Lainey's history. How much sorrow and joy can one house hold in a century? In this beautifully written and powerful debut novel, Ella Joy Olsen traces the stories of five fascinating women who inhabit the same historic home over the course of a century—braided stories of love, heartbreak and courage connect the women, even across generations.