Starting off the episode, Linda and Nancy share the favorite things about their recent trip to NYC. They loved Brooklyn, MJ, walking the Brooklyn Bridge, and dinner with Linny’s nephew and his lovely girlfriend. Neither Linda nor Nancy have read Kristin Hannah previously but several friends had suggested this book, so we decided to make The Nightingale our June book. This story, about two sisters, portrays the different paths they take as they attempt to survive in occupied France. We liked how this story tells a different story about WWII – the lives of women left behind. We talk about flight, fight, and freeze reactions to aggression and the ways the characters reflect this. Linda especially liked the older sister, Vianne, and Nancy the younger, Isabelle! What a surprise! We discuss how the book explores the theme portrayed in the book’s first sentence: If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are. We discuss the gray moral choices the sisters face and reflect on the choices Ukrainians are being forced to make right now.