30
January
2026
Women's Reading Retreat
Join us in Windham, NY for a meaningful escape. Each retreat centers on a new, trending novel or memoir, author talks, and activities like forest bathing, mushroom picking, meditation under the stars, and vineyard hopping.
The featured book for the January retreat is “The White Hot” by Quiara Alegria Hudes. The novel, released in early November, explores themes of motherhood, identity, race, class, and self-discovery. The prose is stunning, and the author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and writer behind one of the most popular modern musicals, “In the Heights".
A best book of the year: NPR, Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews
“The story of a runaway mother’s ten days of freedom—and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment—from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes.
“The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April’s is one of the most memorable voices I’ve encountered in recent fiction. . . . [A] brilliant depiction of a woman learning to transform her rage into something resembling transcendence.”—The New York Times Book Review
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