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Book Club (Talking to Strangers)

  • 04/06/2021
  • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • online

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Meetings will start at 7 and end around 9 or so, depending on how everyone is enjoying the evening. Please come whether you enjoyed the book, hated the book, or didn't quite finish it! 

Book Selections for 2021 will be posted on a monthly basis. The selection for the next meeting is:

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

"How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?
While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you'll hear the voices of people he interviewed--scientists, criminologists, military psychologists. Court transcripts are brought to life with re-enactments. You actually hear the contentious arrest of Sandra Bland by the side of the road in Texas. As Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, and the suicide of Sylvia Plath, you hear directly from many of the players in these real-life tragedies. There's even a theme song - Janelle Monae's "Hell You Talmbout."
Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world."

Here are some useful links about the book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp6S3NgzxTE

Purchase here (we will earn a commission on your purchase)
https://bookshop.org/a/5552/9780316478526

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