Leaving the Clock Behind with Jamie Brenner

When reading The Weekend Crashers, we find ourselves in autumn, at an inn in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where a knitting retreat and a bachelor party have accidentally been booked for the same weekend. 

Maggie Hodges and her daughter Piper leave their homes in New York City and arrive at the retreat at different points in their lives. Both are contemplating what comes next in their careers and love lives. For as long as she can remember, Maggie has scheduled her days around responsibility and routine, while Piper is overwhelmed by the circumstances of her modeling career, where her sense of time is urgent and unstable.

“When we leave our home setting, and the structures of time that we’ve built into our lives, then people get in touch with their feelings, things slow down.” —Jamie Brenner

At the inn, away from the fast pace of the city and the unrelenting presence of responsibility, both women are brought into a different experience of time, and a new way to notice the questions that day-to-day life doesn’t give them a moment to consider.

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