Staff Book Review with Liz

What would your last meal on this earth be?

Set in 1950’s Louisiana, this story follows Ginny Polk, daughter of a murdered prison warden, who grows up to become the penitentiary’s cook. Her specialty, providing last meals to death row inmates. This story is as timely as ever, uncovering universal truths, not only of the incessant racial bias in our prison system, but of the personal prisons we build for ourselves. Grappling with the age old adage, “The Truth Shall Set You Free”, Ginny Polk’s personal journey to freedom is both inspirational and thought provoking.

Join us, Nine Perfect Strangers Book Club on Tuesday, September 22 at 10 am if you’d like to discuss
The Last Suppers even further!

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hoopla Book Club Live Event: The Fixed Stars

The Fixed Stars Author: Molly Wizenberg • Read by: Erin Mallon • Genre: Memoir • Publisher: Abrams Release • Year: 2020 • Length: 256 pages / 6h 22m Join hoopla on Facebook for hoopla Book Club LIVE ! On Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm ET, NYT bestselling memoirist Molly Wizenberg will be in conversation with audiobook narrator of The Fixed Stars, Erin Mallon. Attendees can learn more about Molly and her writing process and even ask her questions during the live session! RSVP and learn more here . From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and provocative story of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships. At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irredeemably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives i...

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