October Book Group Tonight + Our November Pick
Join us tonight at 7PM CT to discuss our October book: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.
Please join us for the discussion whether or not you have finished the book. We all have busy lives! Check out the additional resource links on our website to learn more about the author, listen to a podcast or watch a video. We are excited to see you on Wednesday!
Discussion Questions
What did you think of The Mighty Red and why?
What aspects of this book resonated with you the most? Why?
What is the impact of nature on the characters in this book?
In what ways are love and hope presented in the book?
Discuss the themes of trauma, grief and forgiveness in The Mighty Red.
Did anything from this book affect your own world or viewpoint?
If you could ask Louise Erdrich anything about this book, what would it be?
Our November Book: Core Samples by Anna Farro Henderson
People live by their stories—how can we use them to accelerate action on climate change?
Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples, exploring how science is done, discussed, legislated, and imagined. Through stories both raucous and poignant—of far-flung expeditions, finding artistic inspiration in research, and traversing the systemic barriers women and mothers face in science and politics—she brings readers into the daily rhythms and intimacies of scientific research and political negotiation.
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