Join the Book Club as they discuss The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.<\/p>\n
Summary:<\/p>\n
Alicia Berenson\u2019s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London\u2019s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.<\/p>\n
Alicia\u2019s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.<\/span><\/p>\n Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations\u2014a search for the truth that threatens to consume him….<\/p>\n Location & Host: Time: 10:00 AM<\/p>\n RSVP to Becky at beckyhunter@att.net<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"january-book-club-meeting-2","image":{"url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB.png","id":223,"extension":"png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB-150x150.png"},"medium":{"width":300,"height":169,"mime-type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB-300x169.png"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":432,"mime-type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB-768x432.png"},"large":{"width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB-1024x576.png"},"wptouch-new-thumbnail":{"width":144,"height":144,"mime-type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB-144x144.png"},"post-thumbnail":{"width":624,"height":351,"mime-type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB-624x351.png"},"mpfy_location_tag":{"width":31,"height":17,"mime-type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB-31x17.png"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2020-01-11 10:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2020","month":"01","day":"11","hour":"10","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2020-01-11 12:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2020","month":"01","day":"11","hour":"12","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2020-01-11 10:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2020","month":"01","day":"11","hour":"10","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2020-01-11 12:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2020","month":"01","day":"11","hour":"12","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"UTC+0","timezone_abbr":"UTC+0","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":true,"featured":true,"categories":[{"name":"Book Club","slug":"book-club","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw","id":2416,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/2416","collection":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[{"id":184,"author":"236","status":"publish","date":"2019-11-12 17:14:24","date_utc":"2019-11-12 17:14:24","modified":"2019-11-12 17:14:24","modified_utc":"2019-11-12 17:14:24","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/organizer\/becky-hunter-63\/","organizer":"Becky Hunter ’63","slug":"becky-hunter-63","email":"BeckyHunter@att.net","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"Becky Hunter ’63","description":"","url":"","telephone":"","email":"BeckyHunter@att.net","sameAs":""},"global_id":"new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston?id=184","global_id_lineage":["new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston?id=184"]}],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"January: Book Club Meeting","description":"<p>Join the Book Club as they discuss The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. Summary: Alicia Berenson\u2019s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she […]<\/p>\\n","image":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/files\/2019\/11\/MHC-BOOK-CLUB.png","url":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/houston\/event\/january-book-club-meeting-2\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2020-01-11T10:00:00+00:00","endDate":"2020-01-11T12:00:00+00:00","organizer":{"@type":"Person","name":"Becky Hunter ’63","description":"","url":"","telephone":"","email":"BeckyHunter@att.net","sameAs":""},"performer":"Organization"}}
\nBecky Hunter ’63
\nBellaire TX 77401<\/p>\n