Better You Book Club
Sun, Sep 17
|Leesburg
Join us for a discussion of I Never Thought of It That Way by Mónica Guzmán with your host Eileen. The first 8 RSVPs get the book for FREE. That's right, free. So, stop by the bookstore to pick yours up and join the conversation!
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2023, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Leesburg, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions.
Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted--twice--for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool we're not using: our own built-in curiosity.
Partisanship is up, trust is down, and our social media feeds make us sure we're right and everyone else is ignorant (or worse). But avoiding one another is hurting our relationships and our society.
In this timely, personal guide, Mónica, the chief storyteller for the national cross-partisan depolarization organization Braver Angels, takes you to the real front lines of a crisis that threatens to grind America to a halt--broken conversations among confounded people. She shows you how to overcome the fear and certainty that surround…