[Hac-announce] August 2018 Book Discussion: "Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren

Tue Jul 31 11:05:18 EDT 2018

Our book for August is Lab Girl by geobiologist Hope Jahren. The discussion will take place Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 2 pm in the library (or outside if it is hot) of the Unitarian Society of New Haven at 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden.

>From Amazon:

Geobiologist Hope Jahren hasspent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is herrevelatory treatise on plant life – but it is also a celebration of thelifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist…Warm,luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates themountains that we can move when love and work come together.

“Engrossing. . . . Thrilling.. . . Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, whatStephen Jay Gould’s writings did for paleontology.” – The New York Times

Light snacks will be served.

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