Book Club – February 29, 2024 7:30 PM on Zoom

Our next book for our Book Club is Rough Sleepers, by Tracy Kidder.

Tracy Kidder has been described by The Baltimore Sun as “a master of the nonfiction narrative.” In Rough Sleepers, Kidder tells the story of Dr. Jim O’Connell, a gifted man who invented a community of care for a city’s unhoused population, including those who sleep on the streets—the “rough sleepers." After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O’Connell’s life’s calling.

The book is available from both the Marin County Library and the Sonoma County Library.

Lucinda will make at least 5 copies for people to borrow from the Sonoma County Library, and they will be available on Sundays before or after worship.