Pine Tree Hospice’s Caregiving and Bereavement Book Club is all new, with great readings that will have you looking forward to each meeting – bring your questions and comments or just listen and enjoy the discussion.
Our readings for October are a short story by Annie Proulx, “Family Man” (from the collection Fine Just the Way it Is), and a poem by Anne Bradstreet, “Before the Birth of One of Her Children.” In the first reading, a man living in a retirement home tells his daughter about their family, as she wants to record an oral history. He imparts a family secret that means far more to him than it does to her. Anne Bradstreet, who was America’s first published female poet, recognized her frailty as a woman in the 1600s, and writes to her husband in case she dies during childbirth. Both readings make us think about how people react to the loss of family, or the potential of loss.
Our book club will meet on October 17th, at The Thompson Free Library in Dover-Foxcroft, from 3:30 – 5:00 pm. The reading materials will be available to borrow at the Thompson Free Library in the weeks prior to the meeting. Anyone is welcome to join; we are looking forward to an interesting group with plenty to think, say and talk about – and you don’t need to attend each meeting to be part of this club.
Please call Pine Tree Hospice at 564-4346 for more information and to sign up or stop at the Thompson Free Library to check out your book and sign up. We hope to see you there!