Literature with Lunch Book Group In-Person
Literature with Lunch meets the last Thursday of the month at the Chestertown branch. This group reads a mix of fiction and nonfiction and discussion is led by participants. New attendees are always welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch!
The selection for March is Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover.
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard... [L]acking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
Learn more about this book at Goodreads.
- Date:
- Thursday, February 27, 2020 Show more dates
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Yellow Building
- Branch:
- Chestertown
- Audience:
- Adults (ages 18+)
- Categories:
- Books & Writing