Join the Henry Ford Health - Healthcare Equity Book Club! A book related to culture or equity is selected each quarter. Discussions are both online and in person, and are moderated by our Henry Ford Health - Healthcare Equity Team.
You must be a Goodreads member to join the Book Club. Goodreads is a free site that hosts reading groups, lets you create lists of the books you've read and those you want to read. It's a great site to locate reading suggestions, too.
This will be a virtual book club meeting.
Please contact Amanda Kelly at akelly14@hfhs.org for the Webex Information. Amanda will forward the Webex connection information to you.
April 2024 Book Club Selections
Book Club selections may be checked out from the Sladen Library. Email us at sladen@hfhs.org or akelly14@hfhs.org or give us a call at 313-916-2550 and we can assist you with availability and delivery.
A miracle pregnancy turns a 55-year-old woman into a social media star. Will her new life bring her the joy she longs for, or tear her family apart?
Hannah Murrow is ecstatic. After a lifetime of infertility, she has somehow become pregnant at 55! But the news leaves her adopted daughter, Natty, feeling alienated, and worse, leads Hannah’s husband, Ryan, to threaten her with divorce if she proceeds with the pregnancy.
Devastated by Ryan’s hidden reasons for opposing late-in-life fatherhood, Hannah nevertheless decides to hold onto her dream, even reluctantly accepting the plan Natty and her boyfriend propose to turn the improbable pregnancy into a marketing opportunity. While Hannah quickly embraces her status as social media celebrity “Saint Hannah,” relishing the attention and newly strengthened relationship with Natty it produces, her longed-for pregnancy proves to be a double-edged sword – bringing physical challenges, envy from her infertile friends, and even a mysterious threat from a stranger.
As her due date approaches, Hannah finds herself forced to reconsider her future with Ryan, her need for validation, and what it means to be a mother – both to the child she's expecting and to the one she has already raised.
The Book of Hannah: A Tragicomedy in Three Trimesters is a quick, enjoyable read that explores the joys and frustrations of pregnancy, motherhood, and social media stardom, with warmth and a touch of humor.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 "A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing." --Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review "We all need--we all deserve--this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.