Book Club: Ask Again, Yes

The Girl Next Door Podcast

Kelsey Wharton

Kids & Family, Working, Books, Family, Creative, Cooking, Work, Mom, Honest, Life, Society & Culture, Married, Personal Journals, Conversation

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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For spring book club we discuss Mary Beth Keane's novel Ask Again, Yes which asks, "how much can a family forgive?"

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Girl Next Door Podcast.
0:05.7	I'm Erica.
0:06.4	And I'm Kelsey.
0:07.3	We're two former next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh.
0:11.7	We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while.
0:14.7	Hey friend.
0:15.2	Hey, friend.
0:16.5	So welcome everybody to our spring edition of The Girl Next Door Book Club.
0:21.1	Every quarter, we choose a book to read and discuss here on a special episode.
0:25.3	And if you read and listen along with us, you're in the book club.
0:28.6	So this time we read Ask Again Yes by Mary Beth Keene.
0:32.5	And there is lots to discuss.
0:35.5	There will be spoilers.
0:37.1	So make sure you just pause this episode.
0:40.7	Save it for after you finish the book if you do intend to read it. But let's start as we usually
0:45.7	do with a little bit of a synopsis. Okay. Francis Gleason and Brian Stanhope, rookie cops in the
0:52.7	NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city.
0:56.2	What happens behind closed doors in both houses, the loneliness of Francis' wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come.
1:06.9	Ask Again Yes is a deeply affecting exploration of the lifelong friendship and love that blossoms between Kate Gleason and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart.
1:16.5	One shocking night, their loyalties are divided and their bond will be tested again and again over the next 40 years.
1:22.9	Luminous, heartbreaking, and redemptive, Ask Again yes, reveals the way childhood memories change
1:27.7	when viewed from the distance of adulthood. Villains lose their menace, and those who appeared
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