Chevy Chase Non Fiction Book Club

"Everything is Tuberculosis"

Join us for a discussion of this non fiction title, written by popular novelist John Green.

"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
 
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.
 
In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis." - Publisher

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The Chevy Chase Library elevator currently out of service and undergoing modernization replacement. This program is held in the downstairs meeting room, and it is only accessible by the stairs.

Join our friendly book group! Each month we read either a non-fiction (first Wednesday at 3:30) or fiction (third Wednesday at 3:30) selection. Titles are announced a month before,and copies are available at the Circulaiton Desk. Discussion questions are provided with the selection.

Want to read more non-fiction? Enjoy other non-fiction titles in our MCPL catalog. 

Questions about this program? Contact Chevy Chase Library at: 240-773-9590

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