Book Club: Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America, by Beth Macy
Mon, Mar 15
|Generations Senior Community Center
Led by ...TBD... Macy chronicles what happened to Urbana, Ohio, in the forty years since she’d left. The result is an astonishing book that, by taking us into the heart of one place, brings into focus our most urgent set of national issues.
Time & Location
Mar 15, 2027, 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Generations Senior Community Center, 103 Elm Street, Woodruff, WI 54568, USA
About the Event
Arrive by 12:00pm, bring a lunch or snack you enjoy as it will not be provided.
Book Club discussions start at 1:00pm in the lower level conference room and generally end by 2:30pm.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Vanity Fair
Urbana, Ohio, was not a utopia when journalist Beth Macy grew up there in the ’70s and ’80s—certainly not for her family. Her dad was known as the town drunk. But Urbana had a healthy economy and thriving schools, and Macy had middle-class schoolmates whose families became her role models. Though she left for college on a Pell Grant and then a faraway career in journalism, she still clung gratefully to the place that had helped raise her.
But as Macy’s mother’s health declined in 2020, she couldn’t…