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Book Club on Creative Response to Trauma

  • Museum of Northwest Art 121 1st Street La Conner, WA, 98257 United States (map)

Please join us for this exciting collaboration between MoNA & La Conner Swinomish Library!

For a fresh twist on the classic book club model, Richard Vendiola from the La Conner Swinomish Library has selected several books related to the theme of Creative Response to Trauma: A Community Response. You can read any book(s) from this list that most interest you and then join us at MoNA for some snacks and facilitated discussion on the theme!

Book options selected by La Conner Swinomish Library:

Fiction

  • The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes

  • One Blood by Denene Millner

  • The Woods by Harlan Coben

  • Hideaway by Nora Roberts

  • The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

  • My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

  • House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

Non-Fiction

  • Re-Write: A Trauma Workbook of Creative Writing and Recovery in Our New Normal by Duygu Balan

  • The Body Keeps the Score Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

  • Red Paint: the Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

  • UnF*CK Your Brain by Faith G. Harper


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