August Book Club

Note: All the upcoming books and those that we didn’t select are listed at the bottom of this section.

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
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 increased access to treatment and 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.

Pat will be moderating this month. Hope you can join us for some thoughtful discussion.

Upcoming books: (August is the next book selection month.)
September: Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell (Pat/Kathy)

Not selected this time:
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold
Change of Heart: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines by Graydon Carter