This fall, Thomas Memorial Library, in partnership with the Town’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee will be hosting a series of facilitated discussion groups focused on the book I Never Thought of It That Way:  How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, by Mónica Guzmán. 

Partisanship is up, trust is down, and our social media feeds make us sure we’re right and everyone else is ignorant (or worse). But avoiding one another is hurting our relationships and our society. 

In this timely, personal guide, Mónica, the chief storyteller for the national cross-partisan depolarization organization Braver Angels, shows you how to overcome the fear and uncertainty that surrounds us to finally do what only seems impossible: understand and even learn from people in your life whose whole worldview is different from or even opposed to yours. 

Members of the DEI Committee will lead multiple conversations about the book, and about how to put Guzmán’s ideas into practice in your own life and community. The conversations will take place during the months of September and October leading up to the election in November.

Free copies of the book to read and pass along to someone else will be made available to anyone who wants one, courtesy of the TML Foundation (while supplies last!) 

The book is also available as an ebook and downloadable audiobook through the library’s CloudLibrary service, and it can be borrowed in print from the library as well.

Please use this link to complete a form to express your preferences for book discussion dates and times and/or to sign up to receive a free copy of the book.