THIRD THURSDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION FOR AUGUST
 

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS  by Tracy Kidder
(a Pulitzer Prize winner) is this month’s selection.

This is a non-fiction account of a remarkable man, Dr. Paul Farmer, “a man who would cure the world.”

The central character of this marvelous book is one of the most provocative, brilliant, funny, unsettling, endlessly energetic, irksome, and charming characters ever to spring to life on the page.  He has embarked on an epic struggle that will take you from the halls of Harvard Medical School to a sun-scorched plateau in Haiti, from the slums of Peru to the cold gray prisons of Moscow.  He wants to change the world.  Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it.

“A profoundly inspiring and important book about one of the truly great men of our time.”

“Rarely has idealism fared so well on the planet as in Tracy Kidder’s eloquently reported Mountins Beyond Mountains.  One is tempted to call Paul Farmer’s passionate sensibilities and loving ambitions otherworldly, but only in sadness that there are too few of him in the world.  Kidder has provided us all, as the Farmerites say, with a road map to decency, and such an endowment is beyond measure.”

Please join us to discuss this fascinating book on Thursday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Berkeley Meigs.  Wine, cheese, and light dessert and coffee are served.
Cost: $2.00.

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