Novel that has DCUM in it!

[Anonymous]

I did a search and didn't see this discussed earlier.

Someone on the August book thread recommended a book by Bethesda writer Aggie Blum Thompson. That wasn't available at the library, so I read her first one, which really skewers Bethesda moms. So now I'm listening another of her books about suicides, or possible murders, by students at a fictitious DC private school called Washington Prep. Like her other book there's a lot of mocking references to the striving uber moms in the area. But this book, All the Dirty Secrets, includes lots of posts on DCUM, which are very close in tone to the real thing...although that's not hard to do.

This book's protagonist lives in AU Park and there are a lot of local places in it. It's not great literature but a good listen while I'm exercising or folding laundry, etc.

Any other books that have DCUM?

[Anonymous]

An Honest Woman, memoir that just came out, by a woman who worked as a high class sugar baby in DC. Her clients sound like they walked out of the pages of the DCUM Relationships section.

[Anonymous]

That's hilarious. I kind of want to read that book now.

[Anonymous]

I often wonder if some of the posst here are completely fake and just looking for book Content.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I often wonder if some of the posst here are completely fake and just looking for book Content.

Shhhhh.

- fiction writer

[Anonymous]

Oh! I just read one that did. It's a Privilege Just to be Here has quotes that sound like they are on here. BUT the book is fairly boring and predictable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh! I just read one that did. It's a Privilege Just to be Here has quotes that sound like they are on here. BUT the book is fairly boring and predictable.

OP here. The book I mentioned with DCUM in it has similar private DC school and DEI themes, but is much more engaging. I gave up on It’s a Privilege Just to be Here about a third of the way in.

[Anonymous]

‘Friends with Secrets’ by Christine Gunderson just came out. Set in Nova…

[Anonymous]

How Brechtian

[jsteele]

I just read two of the books mentioned in this thread, plus a third, and published a short review of each:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/weblog/2024/11/30/update113024

[Anonymous]

Nice! I hope someone gets a chuckle out of our wacky family stories

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:I just read two of the books mentioned in this thread, plus a third, and published a short review of each:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/weblog/2024/11/30/update113024

Loved your book report! Thanks for posting a link to it here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I often wonder if some of the posst here are completely fake and just looking for book Content.

Many of them are.

[Anonymous]

Two more set in the DC suburbs, full of DCUM type intrigue:

My Darlings, by Marie Still

What the Neighbors Saw, by Melissa Adelman

[Anonymous]

I’ll add Our Kind of Trouble, by Johanna Copeland