Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/09/2019
9:30 am - 10:30 am
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Prairie Path Books
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
Whenever Jenny and I hear folks saying “I cannot even imagine that …” we as readers know that actually you can begin to understand almost anything, especially if an amazing storyteller takes you by the hand along her way. Last winter I began to sort of understand cannabalism after reading Nathanial Philbrick’s “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.” You guys, I’m not kidding—Philbrick is so good he took me there. So, the New York Times published their 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years,* and that got me and Jen noodling: Should we do a Morning Memoir book club, but only with Manageable-in-Length Memoirs (meaning with one exception only 200-ish pages), all by women from diverse backgrounds written over the last five decades?
We said “OK!” to each other and now we can’t wait to imagine lives different from our own in some ways, but looking for connection and common ground at every turn. Come on along and imagine with us.
*The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969. Read more