Friday Book Group Discussion

Name: Friday Book Group Discussion
Start: 2025-09-19T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Decorah Public Library

Schedule

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Decorah Public Library | Decorah, IA

The Friday Book Group will meet on the second floor of the library on Friday, September 19 at 2:00 p.m. to discuss Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks.
Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz, suddenly collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf. Three years later, Brooks booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony’s death.
For more information, contact Tricia Crary (Friday Book Group) or Kristin Torresdal (Happy Hour, History, and Speculative Fiction Book Groups) at 563-382-3717.