The club reads The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe.

Slip is protesting the Kent State shootings at the celebrations for Norwegian Independence Day and sees Faith with a friend. Slip is moved when a fiddler asks for a moment of silence for the fallen students. She learns that Fred was injured in Vietnam and is being discharged. She tries to take a bath, but is interrupted by the needs of her family. Her husband is in an amorous mood, but then the baby starts to cry.

The club reads Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask by Dr. David Reuben.

As Audrey prepares snacks for the book club, she is hit by the realization that Paul is having an affair. Audrey is accustomed to having feelings or premonitions about certain things; her grandfather’s spirit visited her after his death and told her this was a gift. Once, she woke from sleep to tell Paul to call his sister and get everyone out of the house; it turned out there was a fire.

Audrey produces a joint at the book club and the women smoke it while they discuss their sex lives with their husbands.