Adult Book Club Selection

East Bridgewater Public Library Book Club

The East Bridgewater Adult Book Club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7:00 p.m. in the Community room. New members are always welcome! 

Copies of the April selection, Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig, are available at the Circulation desk.

Growing
up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw
disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame),
inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt
right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed
disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and
fulfilling.

Writing
about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t
fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and
charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and
how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to
everyday life.