The Nonfiction Book Club meets the first Monday of each month at 7 PM. Registration is not required, just read the book and join us for the discussion. Newcomers are always welcome! 

This month's book is:

We Are the Weather 
by Jonathan Safran Foer 

Books on the climate catastrophe are always urgent, often insightful—and rarely fun to read. This refreshing exception from the author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close uses lush lyricism, damning data, and wildly original storytelling to craft an environmentalist narrative that inspires action and commands attention. While this book does have an agenda (spoiler alert: it has to do with our eating habits) Foer never lectures. Instead, he lays both himself and the research bare on the page, asking us to work through the existential and material questions of our changing planet alongside him. An unforgettable—and genuinely unputdownable—reckoning with the dire state of the planet and the very nature of our species, this book should be required reading for anyone who lives on this planet in the present and wants to in the future. 

About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Here I Am, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.