Virtual Book Club
July Virtual Book Club
Jill Kandel
The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir
July 7, 2022
4 PM PDT | 5 PM MDT | 6 PM CDT | 7 PM EDT
Every marriage is complicated, but a cross-cultural one even more so. I grew up in North Dakota and, at the age of twenty-five, married a man from the Netherlands. My new husband was an agriculturalist working with subsistence farmers. We moved to Zambia and lived a village so remote it took an eight-hour canoe ride to reach it. Our first two children were born in the village. After six years there, we moved to the highlands of Indonesia and worked with small-scale coffee farmers for three years.
June Virtual Book Club
Laura Engel YOU’LL FORGET THIS EVER HAPPENED: SECRETS, SHAME, AND ADOPTION In The 1960’s. June 2, 2022 4 PM PDT | 5 PM MDT | 6 PM CDT | 7 PM EDT You’ll Forget This Ever Happened is the story of Laura, a typical seventeen-year-old high school senior in 1967, who finds...
May Virtual Book Club
Deborah LottDon't Go Crazy Without MeMay 5, 20224 PM PDT | 5 PM MDT | 6 PM CDT | 7 PM EDTI began my memoir, as many of us probably do, in the form of individual short pieces. I wrote about the moments and events from my childhood that felt most formative, that haunted...
April Virtual Book Club
Lisa Dailey
Square Up
April 7, 2022
4 PM PDT | 5 PM MDT | 6 PM CDT | 7 PM EDT
Square Up is the story of my family’s journey around the world as well as my own personal journey through grief.