The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum will present its Hoosier Authors Book Club series for the 11th year. According to its press release, there will be five planned discussions, with the first one coming up on Thursday, April 16 at 7 p.m.
This first discussion will be about John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis, which explores how the disease (also known as TB) “reveals the failures of public health [and] the power of personal narrative of curable illness”. The narrative nonfiction follows Henry – who is a patient suffering from TB – and his treatment in Sierra Leone while also “shedding light on the battle against TB in impoverished countries”. The discussion will take place in the Lew Wallace Carriage House at 200 Wallace Ave. An Indianapolis-native, Green is the author of famous books such as The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, and Looking for Alaska.
A limited number of copies are available for check-out in the Carriage House. To learn more about Everything is Tuberculosis, click or tap here.
Other books that will be featured in future discussions include If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By, by Kurt Vonnegut and edited by Dan Wakefield on Thursday, May 21; Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty on Thursday, June 18; Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance by A’Lelia Bundles on Thursday, September 17; and When Knighthood was in Flower by Charles Major on Thursday, October 15. All discussions are free and open to the public.
To learn more about the Hoosier Authors Book Club, click or tap here.
To learn more about the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, click or tap here.
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