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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Our book for September is </span><i style="letter-spacing: -0.02em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><span>Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth</span></i><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"> by journalist and academic Sarah Smarsh. The discussion will take place on Saturday, September 12 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><span style="font-family: new times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><b><font color="#9d1811">Please note that we are meeting on the 2nd rather than 3rd Saturday of the month.</font></b> (We will return to 'normal' timing after this month.)</span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:7b6e5160-92ee-bed8-a920-47042ba5e23f@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em; max-width: 279px; width: 50%;" data-id="<7b6e5160-92ee-bed8-a920-47042ba5e23f@yahoo.com>"></div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;">>From Amazon:</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>In this furious, regretful, and loving memoir, Sarah Smarsh examines the life of America’s rural poor through the microcosm of her extended family. Growing up working-class white on the Kansas plains, Smarsh enjoyed the freedom of a country childhood, but witnessed the hideous legacy of poverty in her relatives’ untreated illnesses, unsafe job conditions, abusive marriages, and addictions to everything from cigarettes to opioids.</div><div><br></div><div>For Smarsh, one of the cruelest blows the poor suffer is society’s assessment that they somehow deserve less than others. “People of all backgrounds experience a sense of poorness – not enough of this or that thing that money can’t buy. But financial poverty is the one shamed by society, culture, unchecked capitalism, public policy, our very way of speaking.” <i>Heartland</i> will make you check your privilege before you refer to anyone as “white trash” or “red neck.”</div><div><br></div><div>"Smart, nuanced and atmospheric...<i>Heartland</i> deepens our understanding of the crushing ways in which class shapes possibility in this country. It's an unsentimental tribute to the working-class people Smarsh knows – the farmers, office clerks, trash collectors, waitresses – whose labor is often invisible or disdained." – NPR Books</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Hope to see you on the 12th,</span><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Kevin & Paula</span></div></div></body></html>