August Book Club - What My Bones Know

Name: August Book Club - What My Bones Know
Start: 2025-08-14T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-14T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Kentucky Native Café

Schedule

Thu Aug 14 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Kentucky Native Café | Lexington, KY

Join us for our August Book club where we will be discussing What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo. This event is FREE for anyone. Use the following link to register: https://kscsw.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/kscsw/event.jsp?event=636&
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life
“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers Weekly
By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
Both of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD.
In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it.
Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.
Join us at the Kentucky Native Cafe
417 E Maxwell St. Lexington, KY 40508
Time: 6:30-7:30 pm EST