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Book Club on Creative Response to Trauma

  • Museum of Northwest Art 121 1st Street La Conner, WA, 98257 United States (map)

Please join us for this exciting collaboration between MoNA & La Conner Swinomish Library!

For a fresh twist on the classic book club model, Richard Vendiola from the La Conner Swinomish Library has selected several books related to the theme of Creative Response to Trauma: A Community Response. Join us at MoNA to have a discussion about this theme connecting to the book of your choice, meet fellow book-lovers, and have light refreshments surrounded by art!

Choose your own book or pick up any of these great reads:

Fiction

  • The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes

  • One Blood by Denene Millner

  • The Woods by Harlan Coben

  • Hideaway by Nora Roberts

  • The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

  • My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

  • House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

Non-Fiction

  • Re-Write: A Trauma Workbook of Creative Writing and Recovery in Our New Normal by Duygu Balan

  • The Body Keeps the Score Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

  • Red Paint: the Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

  • UnF*CK Your Brain by Faith G. Harper


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