RAINBOWLIT: LGBTQ+ BOOK GROUP

RainbowLit: LGBTQ+ Book Group. This group meets every 4th Monday of the month and is sponsored by the Library and the Belmont LGBTQ+ Alliance. We read fiction, non-fiction, and sometimes poetry.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 at 7:00—8:30 PM Online. Registration required.

This month’s book: Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness by Kathryn Schultz

One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally met her future wife. But as the two of them began building a life together, Schulz’s beloved father—a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee—went into the hospital with a minor heart condition and never came out. Newly in love yet also newly bereft, Schulz was left contending simultaneously with wild joy and terrible grief.

Those twin experiences form the heart of Lost & Found, a profound meditation on the families that make us and the families we make. But Schulz’s book also explores how disappearance and discovery shape us all. On average, we each lose two hundred thousand objects over our lifetime, and Schulz brilliantly illuminates the relationship between those everyday losses and our most devastating ones. Likewise, she explores the importance of seeking, whether for ancient ruins or new ideas, friends, faith, meaning, or love. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to sustaining wonder and gratitude even in the face of loss and grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, and humor about the connections between joy and sorrow—and between us all.

To Register: zoom link Questions? Email May at mforkin@minlib.net.