Five-Star Weekend (2024)

Hollis Shaw, creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis, finds her life turned upside down when her heart-surgeon husband is killed in a car accident on a snowy February morning. Seeking comfort, Hollis discovers the idea of the Five-Star Weekend: a gathering of the best friends from each stage of your life. When she hosts her own version on Nantucket, however, the weekend is far from a Hallmark movie. There is Tatum, Hollis’s childhood best friend on Nantucket, and her husband’s best friend Jack, who also happens to be Hollis’s first love. Dru-Ann, her college best friend and now a prominent Black female sports agent in Chicago, has landed herself and her marriage in hot water with her Twitter comments. Brooke helped Hollis raise her children during their thirties, until Electra, the self-appointed queen bee, ousted her from the local mums’ group; this weekend, Brooke and Electra are finally meeting to make amends. Gigi became Hollis’s internet best friend through her food blog, though they have never met in person. Hollis’s daughter Caroline, a documentary student, also wants to film the entire gathering. But as cracks appear in Hollis’s seemingly perfect life and in her relationship with Caroline, it becomes clear that this will be a weekend like no other. This page-turning story explores friendship, love and self-discovery.