Morning Book Club: "Between Two Kingdoms" by Suleika Jaouad
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…
The Morning Book Club meets on Thursday, November 12 from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Lower Level Meeting Room at the Morristown Library to discuss Suleika Jaouad’s memoir “Between Two Kingdoms.” The book follows Jaouad from a leukemia diagnosis at 22 through years of treatment and into the harder, quieter work of figuring out how to live again afterward. It’s a heavy subject, but the club is welcoming: no residency requirement, no guilt if you didn’t finish the last chapter. Copies are held at the main circulation desk, so just ask a librarian. Questions can go to [email protected] with the subject line “Morning Book Club.”