BOOK CLUB

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In this unique online book club going on five years, authors join us to talk about the domestic abuse related in their books. Free and open to everyone.

IRISH AUTHOR SERIES: Put on some green and join us!

The acclaimed authors of two memoirs and a novel will be Zooming in from Ireland through March to talk with us. READ HERE how the actor and author Gabriel Byrne made that happen!

Solas Nua, the Washington DC-based organization devoted to bringing to US audiences the best in Irish arts, is partnering with us!

Tuesday January 20, 2026
1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

ONLINE

Deadly Silence: A Sister's Battle to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh and her Sister by Alan Hawe
By Jacqueline Connolly

Winner of the 2025 Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards!

Jacqueline will be joining us from Ireland over Zoom to discuss her heart-breaking and infuriating account of the domestic violence murder-suicide that rocked her personal world and also Ireland.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026
4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

ONLINE

Nesting: A Novel
by Roisín O'Donnell

Winner of the 2025 Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards!

Roisin will be joining us from Ireland over Zoom to discuss her “beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over.”

Tuesday, March 24, 2026
1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Ring of Salt: A Memoir of Finding Home and Hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland
by Betsy Cornwell

Betsy will be joining us over Zoom to discuss her memoir described as Maid meets Under the Tuscan Sun, about a writer and mother who flees an abusive marriage and must learn to reclaim the story of her life through a search for home on Ireland’s wild, western coast.

Monday, May 12
6 p.m., Online

Paper Girl
by Beth Macy

Beth Macy, author of the bestselling investigation of the opioid crisis Dopesick, will join us to talk about the domestic violence weaving through her 2025 memoir of "home and family in a fractured America".

"In her new book Beth Macy returns to her home town of Urbana, Ohio, using it as ground zero for understanding right-wing radicalization." — The New Yorker