Neighbor is excited to host our friends at Here to Honor and the next installment of their Minding Our Mortality book club. From Here to Honor:
Join for refreshments and discussion of the book “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” by Suleika Jaouad
RSVP here. This is a free event, but you will have the option to make a suggested donation of $10 during the registration process—that would help cover costs and is greatly appreciated!
“Minding our Mortality” [MoM] events by Here to Honor provide opportunities for contemplative thought and conversation—designated time and space for considering our impermanence in ways that tap into our deepest human longings and shape how we face our finitude.
We will be discussing Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad, a New York Times Bestseller that traces the author's journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into "normal" life.
It is recommended that you read this book prior to our meeting at Neighbor on Wednesday evening, February 21st. Beverages and snacks will be provided.
A description of this memoir is excerpted from Bookshop.org below:
In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter "the real world." She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone.It started with an itch--first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times.
Purchasing from Bookshop.org supports local bookstores as well as Here to Honor.
ABOUT HERE TO HONOR:
Since its founding in 2020, Here to Honor has envisioned end of life as a journey that can actually lead to stronger relationships and being more fully engaged in the present.
We believe that death, as a shared human experience, can be approached with hope and togetherness. Our mission is to cultivate community around end-of-life learning so that everyone feels supported in facing mortality and equipped to make knowledgeable and loving decisions.