August Not Fiction Book Discussion

Join us for a virtual discussion of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche. Carolyn Forché tells the story of how she came to write some of her most powerful poems of witness. She is twenty-seven when she accepts an invitation from a mysterious stranger from El Salvador to visit and learn about his country, documenting the human rights abuses occurring there.

When? Tuesday, August 4, at 6:30 p.m.

Where? Not Fiction Book Discussion is moving to Zoom! Starting with our discussion next Tuesday, we will hold all of our discussions on Zoom, most likely through the end of the year. 

Here is the invitation to register on Zoom. The meeting code you receive will work for the remainder of the discussions this year.

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You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Aug 4, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:

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Readalikes: If you enjoyed July's selection . . .

If you liked Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, then you might also enjoy these books, movies, and television shows recommended by our discussion group members:

Books

• Milkman: A Novel by Anna Burns 
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
• The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by John Meacham
• Poems and plays of William Butler Yeats

Movies and TV Shows

• The Crying Game written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rea, who was the husband of Provisional IRA member Dolours Price
• Derry Girls created by Lisa McGee