december 2018
Event Details
Our next Book Club will meet Tuesday, 12/4/18 at 11am in the Media Center of our Education Building at 11am, followed by an optional lunch out. Our selection is: “The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies”. The author, Dawn Raffel, is going to be featured at the opening night of the Tampa JCC Jewish Book Festival on 11/1/18.
“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.… It’s a fascinating historical footnote, compassionately told.” —NPR
Purchase your copy here: https://smile.amazon.com/Strange-Case-Dr-Couney-Mysterious/dp/0399175741
About the Author –
Dawn Raffel is a journalist, memoirist, and short story writer whose work has been widely anthologized. A longtime magazine editor, she helped launch O, The Oprah Magazine. She has also taught creative writing in the MFA program at Columbia University; at Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia; Montreal; and Vilnius, Lithuania; and at the Center for Fiction in New York. She now works as an independent editor and book reviewer.
