As a teenager, what made you feel important? For some, romance comes immediately to mind. Others find recognition in sports or other school activities.
Many teenagers drift until something comes along which gives purpose to their otherwise drab or ordinary existence.
When we look back, high school represents a time of challenge and opportunity. What happens to the students struggling with problems at home or with how they look. At a time when all seems crucial and vitally important, the teen years are filled with sadness, loneliness, and the desolation that comes when even those who say they love you don’t accept, hear or understand you.

Daughters Of Eve, written by Lois Duncan and the subject of our romance group this month is a novel about the power of a club and what happens when discontent boils under the surface of normal lives.
Daughters Of Eve is a high school club for girls. Prospective members are invited to join by present members. Flattered by the invitation to join this exclusive club, three new girls look forward to becoming the newest Daughters Of Eve. Each struggles with her family. AS months go by, through club meetings and discussion, all three question the life they live. How do their families see them? Are they loved and appreciated?

Daughters Of Eve has a sinister purpose. Irene, faculty advisor to the ten members lives with unresolved hurts and disappointments. Her anger spreads eventually taking up residence in teenage girls struggling with issues of identity and struggles of their own.

Written in the 70’s, Daughters of Eve may seem a bit dated. One girl struggles with whether to marry her boyfriend when she becomes pregnant with his child. Should she give up the career she longs for just as much as marriage to the boy she loves? Daughters of Eve is filled with struggle and how it is we define ourselves? What is important and what can be sacrificed are vital questions for teenagers beginning the log process of knowing themselves and going out in the world. How much should these girls listen to Irene? Is her anger justified? Should she hold a position in which she can exert tremendous change in students who trust and look to her for guidance they so desperately need? What is freedom, liberation? In the end, what does each character in this novel owe herself? How can both sexes make relationships work more equably and arrive at the mutual respect required in a loving relationship?

There is much for us to discuss in this most worthy novel. I look forward to your participation in our stimulating conversation. As always, below is the information you need to download the book from the Bard site followed by details about how you can attend our discussion.

Daughters of Eve
Duncan, Lois. Read by Bets Thompson. Reading time 7 hours 26 minutes.
Young Adult
A high school teacher who is very bitter toward men uses the guise of feminist philosophy to manipulate a group of girls--with chilling and tragic results. For junior and senior high readers.
Download Daughters of Eve, DB22685