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SPL Evening Book Club

September 26 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

by Nina Totenberg

 

Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace. At the story’s heart is one, special relationship: Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. During the devastating illness and eventual death of Nina’s first husband, Ruth drew her out of grief; twelve years later, Nina would reciprocate when Ruth’s beloved husband died. They shared not only a love of opera, but also of shopping, as they instinctively understood that clothes were armor for women who wanted to be taken seriously in a workplace dominated by men. During Ruth’s last year, they shared so many small dinners that Saturdays were “reserved for Ruth” in Nina’s house.

Books available at the front desk at the Seymour Public Library to be checked out with a valid library card.

Mingle starts at 6:00pm

Book Discussion starts at 6:30 pm

Details

Date:
September 26
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Organizer

Suzanne Garvey
Phone
2038883903 ext. 5
Email
sgarvey@biblio.org

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Seymour Public Library
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Seymour, CT 06483 United States
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