Wider Net Book Group will meet in person to discuss Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Wider Net Book Group is no longer facilitated by an Evanston Public Library staff member. The group will continue to meet on the third Monday of each month at 6:00 pm through the end of the year.
Do you enjoy reading a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction titles? Wider Net Book Group reads modern classics and contemporary fiction, biographies, history and other non-fiction titles.
Wider Net Book Group will meet in person in the Small Meeting Room (108) to discuss Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
"Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return." - From the publisher
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