[womeninmed] WIMS Book Club - Mon., January 13, 2020 at 5:30 PM

[Sandra Jarvis]

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We had a robust discussion on Where The Crawdads Sing book on 11/18 - there were a dozen of us and it was lively and fun.
For your holiday read we have chosen:

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (388 pages)

DATE:   Monday, January 13, 2020 at 5:30 pm
Location: Deb Hermann's House (somewhat dependent on the weather) - if it is snowy we will probably meet at a location with covered parking
More to come as we get closer to the date.

Any questions - call Deb Hermann at 315-396-7647

Bring: A bottle of wine/non-alcoholic beverage OR an appetizer to share - or just yourself.....if we meet at a public place you are free to purchase drinks and snacks!

Even if you do not read the entire book - come and join in on the discussion! No RSVP necessary!

 More About the Book:  In July 2015, a young black woman names Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas.  Minutes later she was arrested and jailed.  Three days later,
she committed suicide  in her cell.  What went wrong?  This book is all about what happens when we encounter people we don't know, why it often goes awry, and what it says about us.  How do we make sense of the unfamiliar?
Why are we so bad at judging someone, reading a face, or detecting a lie?  Why do we so often fail to 'get' other people?  Through a series of puzzles, encounters and misunderstandings, from little-known stories to infamous legal cases, 
Gladwell takes us on a journey through the unexpected.  You will read about the spy who spent years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the man who saw through the fraudster Bernie Madoff, the suicide of the
poet Sylvia Plath and the false conviction of Amanda Knox.  You will discover that strangers are never simple.  No one shows us who we are like Malcolm Gladwell.  Here he sets out to understand why we act the way we do, and how 
we might know a little more about those we don't.  (Goodreads) 

Happy Holiday season to all - be safe and warm!  Deb