<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><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);">Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth</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 14 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 style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><div data-setdir="true" style="text-align: center;"><div class="ydp9e70afb1img-preview-wrapper"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:JBY7KJ7WxArF5AjYKpAP" class="ydp9e70afb1yahoo-inline-image ydp9e70afb1preview" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em; max-width: 279px; width: 279px;" data-id="<7b6e5160-92ee-bed8-a920-47042ba5e23f@yahoo.com>"><span class="ydp9e70afb1img-dl-btn" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(130, 140, 147); border-radius: 2px;"><button tabindex="-1" class="ydp9e70afb1c27KHO0_n ydp9e70afb1b_0 ydp9e70afb1M_0 ydp9e70afb1i_0 ydp9e70afb1I_T ydp9e70afb1y_1c6GJq ydp9e70afb1A_6EqO ydp9e70afb1c1AVi73_6FsP ydp9e70afb1r_P ydp9e70afb1C_q ydp9e70afb1cvhIH6_T ydp9e70afb1P_eo6" data-test-id="icon-btn-download" title="Download"><span class="ydp9e70afb1D_F ydp9e70afb1ab_C ydp9e70afb1gl_C ydp9e70afb1W_6D6F" style="width: 20px;"></span></button></span></div></div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;">From Amazon:</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><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 style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Hope to see you on the 14th,</span><br></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Kevin & Paula</span></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>