Lit Youngstown's Food for Thought book discussion meets each month, Sept.-May, at 5:30pm on the 2nd Thursday at the Main Library, 305 Wick Ave., in the 2nd floor meeting room. Haven't read the book yet? No worries.
The December title is If This Were Fiction: a Love Story in Essays by Jill Christman. This book is available at the Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County, and POP! Arts, Book, Culture via Bookshop.
If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. In these pages there are fatal accidents and miraculous births; a grief pilgrimage that takes Christman to jungles, volcanoes, and caves in Central America; and meditations on everything from sexual trauma and the more benign accidents of childhood to gun violence, indoor cycling, unlikely romance, and even a ghost or two. Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction focuses an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Christman’s first fifty years and sends out a message of love, power, and hope.
Upcoming titles:
January (novel) Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
February (memoir) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
March (travel writing) Bad Lands by Jonathan Raban
April (poetry) West: a Translation by Paisley Rekdal
May (travel writing) Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horowitz
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