When: 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13
Where: The Lost Druid Brewery, 2866 Washington Street in Avondale Estates. See https://thelostdruid.com for more information on the Lost Druid.

The Midway Woods Book Club is currently reading the book Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey. and will be gathering to discuss it on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m.

If you’d like to participate in the discussion of this book, just send an email to midwaywoodscommunications@gmail.com and let us know you’d like to join!

At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.

You can check out Memorial Drive from the Dekalb County Public Library (the library’s Wesley Chapel Adult Book Group is holding its own virtual discussion of the book online on Aug. 30 from 6 to 8 p.m.). You can also order a copy of Memorial Drive online through Bookshop.org, where a portion of the book sales go to local bookstores, or through your favorite online or offline retailer.