Reading and Conversation with Author Jamie D. Brooks | The Fleeing Season
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Join us at Sidekick Coffee & Books for a reading and conversation with author Jamie D. Brooks of "The Fleeing Season: An American Mother's Migration Toward Safety and Justice" on Tuesday, November 17th at 7 pm.
Conversation partner to be announced.
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About the book:
For generations, migration stories moved in one direction: toward the American Dream. Now, a seismic reversal is underway. For the first time since the Great Depression, more people are leaving the United States than moving in. Jamie D. Brooks and her family are among the many who have fled.
Blending cultural reporting with memoir, The Fleeing Season shares one mother’s story as she considers how and where to raise her family. Brooks recounts her decision to emigrate to the United Kingdom, while reckoning with issues that so many American families face: school shootings, systemic racism, a broken health care system, rising rates of homelessness, and the lack of a social safety net. Intimate and honest, Brooks’s story is not a political polemic. Rather, it maps a path toward reproductive justice.
About the author:
Jamie D. Brooks is the author of THE FLEEING SEASON: An American Mother's Migration Toward Safety and Justice, published by the University of Iowa Press. Part memoir and part reckoning, the book follows Brooks's decision to leave the United States with her children; a choice she frames not as retreat, but as an act of motherhood: a calculation about safety, justice, and the future she wants for the next generation. After nearly two decades in U.S. healthcare - as a staff attorney, bioethics policy analyst, and patient safety expert, including work with Planned Parenthood, she resettled her family in the U.K. during the pandemic where she now writes on maternal and reproductive care and trains NHS practitioners.
Conversation partner to be announced.
Buy 1, Admit 1 - Reserve your spot: https://bit.ly/TheFleeingSeason
About the book:
For generations, migration stories moved in one direction: toward the American Dream. Now, a seismic reversal is underway. For the first time since the Great Depression, more people are leaving the United States than moving in. Jamie D. Brooks and her family are among the many who have fled.
Blending cultural reporting with memoir, The Fleeing Season shares one mother’s story as she considers how and where to raise her family. Brooks recounts her decision to emigrate to the United Kingdom, while reckoning with issues that so many American families face: school shootings, systemic racism, a broken health care system, rising rates of homelessness, and the lack of a social safety net. Intimate and honest, Brooks’s story is not a political polemic. Rather, it maps a path toward reproductive justice.
About the author:
Jamie D. Brooks is the author of THE FLEEING SEASON: An American Mother's Migration Toward Safety and Justice, published by the University of Iowa Press. Part memoir and part reckoning, the book follows Brooks's decision to leave the United States with her children; a choice she frames not as retreat, but as an act of motherhood: a calculation about safety, justice, and the future she wants for the next generation. After nearly two decades in U.S. healthcare - as a staff attorney, bioethics policy analyst, and patient safety expert, including work with Planned Parenthood, she resettled her family in the U.K. during the pandemic where she now writes on maternal and reproductive care and trains NHS practitioners.
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