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We are excited to announce the book selection for our third Virtual Reading Group! For this series we will be reading and discussing Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey. The Reading Group is hosted by Jennifer Thomas, Director of Strategic Partnerships at CJCC, Stacey Seldon, Family Violence Coordinator at GCFV, Alexis Champion, Training Manager at GCADV, and Barbara Gibson, Safe House Director at Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence. 

 

The virtual book club will be held via Zoom, in 3 sessions held over the next couple of months. We will discuss the book in three sections (approximately 70 pages each section), and we will provide discussion topics prior to each session.

 

About Memorial Drive: “At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, Natasha confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma, and now investigates the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse."

 

About Natasha Tretheway: American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi. Trethewey is the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. She previously served as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where she taught from 2001 to 2017.

 

Book Scholarship: If you want to participate and need assistance purchasing the book, GCADV can order a hard copy for you. Please email Karla Russell at krussell@gcadv.org to request a copy of the book no later than Wednesday, March 17th, to allow enough time for shipping. 

 

Event Date(s): 04/13/2021

Event Time(s): 12:00 PM

Credits: 1.5 Hours

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This is a virtual meeting held via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link after registering for the session.

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