Free Thinkers Book Group

Join FROG, the Free thinkers Reading Opportunity Group, for the Saturday June 13 book group meeting from 2-3:30 PM.

In June we'll be discussing Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green.

Adapted from Goodreads:
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty.

In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.

In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
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This book group is sponsored by the Jefferson Humanists (Find Friends. Share Ideas. Do Good.) It is free and open to the public. To learn more about us, see jeffersonhumanists.org. You can also find our reading list for the entire year there.

The Humanists provide snacks, bring your own beverage of choice. Please RSVP to this Meetup so I know how many chairs to set out!

Upcoming Book Group Meetings:
Saturday July 11 - The Mountain in the Sea by Raye Nayle
Saturday August 8 - One Day, Everyone will have Always been Against This by Omar El Akkad