Each month we will read (or mostly read) a book that is going to be made into a movie or tv series. We'll discuss what we think about the casting choices, adaptability of the source material, or what your directorial choices would be. The book club will meet at New World Tavern at 56 Main Street in Plymouth. Copies of the book are available at Plymouth Public Library. 

This month we will read "Survival of the Thickest" by Michelle Buteau.

If you’ve watched television or movies in the past couple of years, you’ve seen Michelle Buteau. With scene-stealing roles in Always Be My Maybe, First Wives Club, Someone Great, Russian Doll, and Tales of the City; a reality TV show and breakthrough stand-up specials, including her headlining show Welcome to Buteaupia on Netflix; and two podcasts (Late Night Whenever and Adulting), Michelle’s star is on the rise. You’d be forgiven for thinking the road to success—or adulthood or financial stability or self-acceptance or marriage or motherhood—has been easy, but you’d be wrong.

Now, in Survival of the Thickest, Michelle reflects on growing up Caribbean, Catholic, and thick in New Jersey, going to college in Miami (where everyone smells like pineapple), her many friendship and dating disasters, working as a newsroom editor during 9/11, getting started in stand-up opening for male strippers, marrying into her husband’s Dutch family, IVF and surrogacy, motherhood, chosen family, and what it feels like to have a full heart, tight jeans, and stardom finally in her grasp.

If you have any questions please contact Kelsey Casey at kcasey@ocln.org.