BOOK CLUB
Acclaimed authors from around the world join us to talk about the domestic abuse in their books, countries, and sometimes, lives. Free and open to everyone.
April 14 Online Author Talk!
6 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
The Girl with the Duck Tattoo by Sarma Melngailis
This will be a fascinating discussion with the raw food-star chef and entrepreneur about extreme coercive control and financial abuse. Sarma is the subject of the Netflix documentary Bad Vegan that is riveting but also misleading and sensationalist, and being abused as a domestic abuse victim by the media which I can definitely relate to is one of the topics we will discuss!
Tuesday, May 12
6 p.m., Online
Beth Macy, author of the bestselling investigation of the opioid crisis Dopesick, will join us to talk about the domestic violence weaving through her 2025 memoir of "home and family in a fractured America".
"In her new book Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization." — The New Yorker
Tuesday, September 22
6 p.m., Online
Rosie Batty is joining us from Australia!
When Rosie's son Luke was beaten to death by his father in 2014 at a public sports match, this national hero turned unimaginable personal pain into a stunning movement for change all across Australia. We will contrast and compare the domestic violence landscape in Australia to what I see in Maine, and the chief hurdles and pathways to change as well as personal healing, I recommend you read her 2024 memoir Hope and also her first, Rosie: A Mother's Story
The authors of all these books have joined our discussions!
Watch our talk with Roddy Doyle!
Watch our talk with with Gretchen Cherington!
Watch our talk with Andre Dubus III!