The Books n' Brew Book Discussion group me ets at McCarty Mills Taproom\, a relaxed setting to socialize\, discuss bo oks\, and enjoy libations. McCarty Mills Taproom is at 140 S. River St.\, Unit 108\, across the street from the Santori Library\, and food/drink is available for purchase. Adults 19+.
\nBooks are selected by the grou p or facilitating librarian\, and copies are available on the 3rd floor of the Santori Public Library and at the West Branch Library Reference Desk. Contact Cesar Ortega at cortega@aurorapubliclibrary.org \;or call 630/264-3612 for more in formation. \;
\nWe will be discussing: \;Maybe You S hould Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
\nOne day\, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. T he next\, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell\, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. Wit h his balding head\, cardigan\, and khakis\, he seems to have come straigh t from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
\nAs Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer\, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness\, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better\, and a twenty-something who can't sto p hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
\nWith startling wisdom and humor\, Gottlieb invites us into her wo rld as both clinician and patient\, examining the truths and fictions we t ell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and de sire\, meaning and mortality\, guilt and redemption\, terror and courage\, hope and change.
\nMaybe You Should Talk to Someone \; is revolutionary in its candor\, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly r evealing portrait of what it means to be human\, and a disarmingly funny a nd illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to trans form them.
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