Love to read? Come join our lively discussion of everything from novels to biographies to memoirs. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. via zoom.  Note: Book selections may be subject to change. Each month the Sibley Senior Association will email SSA members instructions for attending via Zoom or phone. If you are a newcomer, please email Juliet Smith [email protected] to register at least one week in advance.

October 12

YOU DON’T BELONG HERE: HOW THREE WOMEN REWROTE THE STORY OF WAR by Elizabeth Becker

From amazon.com:

Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations. The author uses these women’s work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Becker writes as a historian and a witness of the times. What emerges is an unforgettable story of three journalists forging their place in a land of men, often at great personal sacrifice.

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