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SUMMARY:Nonfiction Book Discussion Group: SAY NOTHING
DESCRIPTION: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.  Note: We always love hearing from new people with 
 different perspectives\, and we promise not to bite. \n\nThis month's book 
 is:\n\nSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 
 \nBy Patrick Radden O’Keefe \n\nJean McConville's abduction was one of 
 the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. 
 Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a 
 climate of fear and paranoia\, no one would speak of it. In 2003\, five 
 years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland\, a set 
 of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was 
 their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the 
 dress--with so many kids\, she had always kept it handy for diapers or 
 ripped clothes.\n\nPatrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter 
 conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as 
 a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla 
 war\, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal 
 violence seared not only people like the McConville children\, but also 
 I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a 
 united Ireland\, and left them wondering whether the killings they 
 committed were not justified acts of war\, but simple murders.\n\nFrom 
 radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price\, who\, when 
 she was barely out of her teens\, was already planting bombs in London and 
 targeting informers for execution\, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind 
 known as The Dark\, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British 
 Army\, to Gerry Adams\, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore 
 comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of 
 passion\, betrayal\, vengeance\, and anguish.\n\nAuthor Note\n\nPatrick 
 Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and the 
 bestselling author of five books\, including Empire of Pain: The Secret 
 History of the Sackler Dynasty\, which received the Baillie Gifford Prize 
 for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year\, 
 and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland\, 
 which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book 
 is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters\, Killers\, Rebels and Crooks. The 
 recipient of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell 
 Prize for Political Writing\, he is also the creator and host of the 8-part 
 podcast "Wind of Change\," about the strange intersection of Cold War 
 espionage and heavy metal music\, which was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by 
 Entertainment Weekly and the Guardian and has been downloaded more than 10 
 million times. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York.
LOCATION:Conference Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Hoelzer":MAILTO:jhoelzer@smfpl.org
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
CONTACT;CN="Jennifer Hoelzer":MAILTO:jhoelzer@smfpl.org
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