The narrative of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons: A Novel centers around five women in a neighborhood who form a book club. The author is Lorna Landvik. It's a medium length novel, but a fast read. The story covers about 30 years from the 1960s to the 1990s. Most of the chapters begin with a brief bit of information about the book being read by the club at the time -- it's name, author and why it was selected or some other interesting tidbit.