The Audacious Book Club: The Survivalists

Our February 2023 selection

Stubborn, complex women protagonists are one of my favorite discoveries in a novel, and Aretha, the character who is our guide through Kashana Cauley’s novel The Survivalists, is exactly that. Aretha’s wry wit juxtaposed with her disastrous love life — and her determination to go it alone if things don’t pan out soon — is deeply relatable to those of us…