Program Type:
Book ClubAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
Enjoy beer, food, and friends – all while discussing great books!
The Not Your Momma's Book (& Beer) Club typically meets on the last Monday of the month at 7 pm at the The Crafthouse Stage & Grill.
For more information, join the Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/WPLbookclub and/or contact Sarah (rouhans@einetwork.net) to be placed on the email list!
This month, we are reading: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Description from the publisher:
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself. The book begins with one woman’s personal heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy.
You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is “extraordinary” (Ann Patchett) in the way that it reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new and beautiful.
