Monday, November 18, 7-8pm
An After Hours Program
Are you looking for a book group that meets after work and discusses important but often ignored or uncomfortable history? Check out our new book group, The Morbid History Book Group. This group will meet on the 3rd Monday of each month, after hours at the library, for those who work days.
In honor of National Native American Heritage Month our second book is Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid. “An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women–overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds–have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously explores the effect these tragedies have had on communities in the region, and how systemic racism and indifference towards Indigenous lives have created a culture of “over-policing and under-protection,” simultaneously hampering justice while endangering young Indigenous women. Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, first-hand look at the communities along Highway 16 and the families of the victims, as well as examine the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settler and Indigenous peoples that underlie life in the region.”
We will discuss this book and choose books for our 2025 reading list so please bring suggestions.
Interested in joining this new book group? Email Sarah Robertson for more information or register here.
To join this group contact Sarah: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org
