This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. Tony Corsotino of Winchester Public Library will lead the discussion of “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” by Dr. Atul Gawande. This 2014 non-fiction bestseller addresses end-of-life care, hospice care and suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival. Dr. Gawande practices general and endocrine medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky amd Daniel Ziblatt America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss Culpability by Bruce Holsinger. When the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss A Flower Traveled in my Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss Erasure by Percival Everett. A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.
This book club at The Jenks, in partnership with the Winchester Public Library, brings a sociological and anthropological lens to the discussion of books. This month, we will discuss One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.
