Take a Chance Book Club: "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Advocate"
Expand your Reading Horizons!
Are you interested in joining a book club but not sure what you might like to read? We are a book club that reads and discusses a different genre each month. Take a chance with us! New members are always welcome.
Join us the second Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Westover Library.
Registration required.
This month's genre is the memoir and the book selection is "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Advocate" by Judith Heumann.
2024 Reading List
- Jan. 8: "Foster" by Claire Keegan (Novella)
- Feb. 12: "Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward (Novel)
- Mar. 11: "Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone" by Benjamin Stevenson (Mystery)
- Apr. 8: "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Advocate"" by Judith Heumann (History/Memoir)
A limited number of reserved print copies of the selected book will be available at Westover Library circulation desk approximately one month before the book club meeting. Books are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons are also encouraged to place holds on available print or digital copies.
For more information, please call the Westover Branch Library at 703-228-5260.
- Date:
- Monday, April 8, 2024
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Longfellow Room
- Library:
- Westover Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Book Discussion
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
About the book: A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--[this book] recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society.