The Hoosier Authors Book Club enters its 11th year with five planned book discussions.
The first meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Lew Wallace Carriage House at 200 Wallace Ave. The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum’s book club will discuss “Everything is Tuberculosis” by John Green. Green is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “Looking for Alaska,” “An Abundance of Katherines,” “Paper Towns,” “The Fault in Our Stars,” “Turtles All the Way Down,” “The Anthropocene Reviewed” and, most recently, “Everything is Tuberculosis.” A native of Florida, Green and his family reside in Indianapolis.
“Everything Is Tuberculosis” explores how tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of injustice, poverty, and global inequity revealing the failures of public health, the power of personal narrative of curable illness, all through the lens of a personal connection with a patient named Henry, highlighting that TB’s persistence is a reflection of societal choices, resource disparities, and the stigma that prevents people from seeking care.
The title signifies that viewing history and the world through TB reveals deep-seated societal failures, highlighting that in a just world, zero people should die from this preventable infection. This narrative nonfiction title follows the journey of one TB patient, Henry, and his life and treatment in Sierra Leone while simultaneously shedding light on the battle against tuberculosis in impoverished countries.
A limited number of books will be available for check-out at the Carriage House at the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum. If you can’t attend the discussion in person, you can attend by Zoom. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mTlbCj5DRgKMLWlhdcx_JA/.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Other books that will be read by the Hoosier Authors Book Club this year include: “If this isn’t Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and other Words to Live By” written by Kurt Vonnegut and edited by Dan Wakefield on May 21; “Rabbit Hutch” by Tess Gunty on June 18; “Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance” by A’Lelia Bundles on Sept. 17; and “When Knighthood was in Flower” by Charles Major on Oct. 15.
All discussions are free and open to the public. Meetings are held in the ADA-compliant Carriage House Interpretive Center. For more information about the Hoosier Authors Book Club visit https://www.ben-hur.com/programs/hoosier-authors-book-club/.
