TOMORROW: How do you parent a child in the middle of the climate crisis?

avents brookline booksmith Looking for an empowering read that addresses the intersection of family planning and the climate crisis? Enter: The Conceivable Future. Join experts Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli, in conversation with Erin Douglas, as they offer fresh, timely answers to questions such as: * How do I decide to have a baby when there's the threat of environmental collapse? * How do I parent a child in the middle of the climate crisis? * What can I actually do to help stop global warming? Drawing from their decade of work with the organization Conceivable Future, Kallman, a sociologist and Rhode Island State Senator, and Ferorelli, an activist and former Climate Bureau editor, offers both informed perspective and practical steps for taking meaningful action in combating the climate crisis, while also making smart, balanced decisions when it comes to starting and maintaining a family. This is event is proudly cosponsored by the Neighborhood Birth Center, whose mission is to "offer comprehensive full scope midwifery care rooted in reproductive justice." REGISTER HERE — more events below! upcoming events Brgkng, ) : EVENTS FEB 13 7PM Tues 2/13, 7:00PM Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli, with Erin Douglas The Conceivable Future In The Conceivable Future, authors Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli explore the ways in which the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning, parenting, and political action. This book offers fresh, timely answers to questions such as: How do I decide to have a baby when there's the threat of environmental collapse? How do I parent a child in the middle of the climate crisis? What can I actually do to help stop global warming? Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER THIRD THURSDAYS POETRY with Myles Taylor, Thurs 2/15, 7:00PM Myles Taylor, Katya Zinn, and Yena Sharma Purmasir Third Thursdays Poetry Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER Lucas Schaefer FEB 16 7PM Fri 2/16, 7:00PM Scott Guild with Lucas Schaefer Plastic For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER Mon 2/19, 7:00PM Dr. Elizabeth Comen All in Her Head A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women’s healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless—a narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authorities on the female of the species, yet uninformed by women’s own voices, thoughts, fears, pain and experiences. The result is a cultural and societal leg­acy that continues to shape the (mis)treatment and care of women. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER Tues 2/20, 7:00PM S. T. Gibson An Education in Malice Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER [] EVENTS MAKO YOSHIKAWA Julia Glass FEB 21 7PM Wed 2/21, 7:00PM Mako Yoshikawa with Julia Glass Secrets of the Sun Mako Yoshikawa’s father, Shoichi, was a man of contradictions. He grew up fabulously wealthy in prewar Japan but spent his final years living in squalor; he was a proper Japanese man who craved society’s approval yet cross-dressed; he was a brilliant Princeton University physicist and renowned nuclear fusion researcher, yet his career withered as his severe bipolar disorder tightened its grip. And despite his generosity and charisma, he was often violent and cruel toward those closest to him. Yoshikawa adored him, feared him, and eventually cut him out of her life, but after he died, she was driven to try to understand this extraordinarily complex man. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER RESCHEDULED: Thurs 2/22, 7:00PM Edwin Hill with Bracken MacLeod Who to Believe In a twisty, claustrophobic suburban suspense novel for fans of Ruth Ware and Liane Moriarty, the aftermath of a murder in a quiet coastal New England town reveals a web of dark secrets among friends . . . Monreith, Massachusetts, was once a small community of whalers and farmers. These days it’s a well-to-do town filled with commuters drawn to its rugged coastline and country roads. A peaceful, predictable place—until popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home. Suspicion naturally falls on Laurel’s husband, Simon, who had gambling debts that only her life insurance policy could fix. But there are other rumors too . . . Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER N Bia e Tigerbelles IO 7 v CARD DEYTTEC ) 2 v [\ Y5 )] A £ FEB 26 b 7PM Mon 2/26, 7:00PM Aime Alley Card with Deborah Norkin The Tigerbelles The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black women's track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome. The author tells a story of desire, success and failure—of beating the odds—against the backdrop of a changing America, but tells it in an intimate way. Readers will come to know the individuals' unique struggles and triumphs, while also understanding how these dreams emerged and solidified just as the country was struggling to leave the Jim Crow era behind. Coach Edward Temple pushed each team member to the limit and saw the possibilities in them that they often did not see themselves. The elite group of talent included Wilma Rudolph, Barbara Jones, Lucinda Williams, Martha Hudson, Willye B. White and Shirley Crowder: women who once were and should still be known world-wide. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER ; (RO EVENTS ‘ % FEB 27 6PM VICTORIA oo BRI ) 7y Michelle Barry Tues 2/27, 6:00PM Victoria Aveyard with C.L. Herman and Michelle Barry Fate Breaker Everything has come to this. Prepare for a larger-than-life, unforgettable finale to the instant New York Times bestselling Realm Breaker series, where a shattered alliance must rise from the ashes to make their final stand against a ruthless enemy…and the demon god who looks to shroud the entire world in darkness. Ticketed event at Coolidge Corner Theatre REGISTER easits, ] EVENTS AN EVENING OF POETRY with Eric Weiskott, Gary Whiiéd; Matthew Lippman, & Matthew Porto FEB 27 7PM Tues 2/27, 7:00PM Eric Weiskott, Gary Whited, Matthew Porto, and Matthew Lippman An Evening of Poetry Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER RELINQUISHED Cd AN LI I o oo SISSON and the PRIVILEGE of AMERICAN MOTHERHOOD Rebecca TGS N FEB 28 f‘ \ > 7PM - e Wed 2/28, 7:00PM Gretchen Sisson with Rebecca Traister Relinquished A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real. Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER = brooklir}sh [ | EVENTS MARCH 1 5PM AGENTS OF S.U.I.T. FROM BADGER TO WORSE JOHN PATRICK GREEN Fri 3/1, 5:00PM John Patrick Green Agents of S.U.I.T.: From Badger to Worse In the first book of AGENTS OF S.U.I.T., the new volume in John Green’s smash-hit INVESTIGATORS world, eager rookie agent Cilantro stepped into the spotlight—and rocketed into space! Now it’s time for the B-Team to show why they’re so un-B-lievably B-loved. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER | MAR 5 7PM NATHAN TAVARES Tues 3/5, 7:00PM Nathan Tavares Welcome to Forever A sweeping, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities, edited memories, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution. For fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ubik, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Evangelion. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER EVENTS opperfield: CPPBOOKSS The Elliott Bay Book Company MAR 5, 7PM TANA FRENCH Tues 3/5, 7:00PM Tana French The Hunter From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (Vox), a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside. It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Ticketed virtual event REGISTER MAR 6 7PM KATE ZERNIKE The EXCEPTIONS Nancy Hopkins AND. THE Figut ror WomeN ¥ SCIENCE Wed 3/6, 7:00PM Kate Zernike The Exceptions As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the hurdles. In 1963, a female student was attending a lecture given by Nobel Prize winner James Watson, then tenured at Harvard. At nineteen, she was struggling to define her future. She had given herself just ten years to fulfill her professional ambitions before starting the family she was expected to have. For women at that time, a future on the usual path of academic science was unimaginable—but during that lecture, young Nancy Hopkins fell in love with the promise of genetics. Confidently believing science to be a pure meritocracy, she embarked on a career... Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER | MAR 7 7PM MICHELLE EPHRAIM Michelle Ephraim Thurs 3/7, 7:00PM Michelle Ephraim Green World A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare Green World is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Ephraim’s quest to become a Shakespeare scholar and to find community and home. As she studies Shakespeare, Ephraim’s world uncannily begins to mirror the story of the Jewish daughter in The Merchant of Venice, and she finds herself in a Green World, an idyllic place where Shakespeare’s heroines escape their family trauma. Green World reckons with global, historical, and personal tragedy and shows how literature—comic and tragic—can help us brave every kind of anguish. Free event at Brookline Booksmith REGISTER community We host three monthly book clubs: our general book club, our virtual Small Press Book Club, and Queer Book Club. Find contact info and details for our Book Clubs at this link! 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