Biography and Memoirs

Book Discussion Group 

Join us as we discuss great lives and times as presented in biographies and memoirs. All discussions are free and there is no registration required.

                                                                          2nd Thursday of each month @ 10:30 a.m.
                                                            Katy Geissert Civic Center Library Community Meeting Room

August 14, The Father and the Son: My Father's Journey into the Monastic Life by Murray, Matt

In this powerful, moving, and sometimes painful work -- part memoir, part reportage -- Murray explores the reasons his widowed father, a middle-class homeowner and government worker, abandoned his world and moved to a rural monastery to become a monk.  As he tracks his father's spiritual journey, he delves into his own beliefs, questioning not only his father's faith but his own and offering, with stark honesty, profound reflections on the complex relationship between father and son.

September 11, 700 Sundays by Crystal, Billy

In 700 Sundays, a memoir based on his one-man Broadway play of the same name, Crystal tells his own story, dissecting an often complex relationship with this father and how that relationship resonated in other aspects of this life.

 

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