Memoirs & Coffee Book Group to Discuss "Daring: My Passages" by Gail Sheehy

The next meeting of Bernardsville Public Library’s book discussion group, Memoirs and Coffee, will be held on Tuesday, September 22 at 10:30 am in the library’s Community Room. Manager Pat Kennedy-Grant will lead the discussion of “Daring: My Passages” (2014), a memoir by Gail Sheehy. [The author will not be present.]

The author of the classic New York Times bestseller “Passages,” Ms. Sheehy returns with an inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s, and how she became an iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all and one of the premier political profilers of modern times.

In her memoir, Sheehy reflects on desire, ambition, and wanting it all—career, love, children, friends, social significance—and lays bare her major life passages: false starts and surprise successes, the shock of failures and inner crises; betrayal in a first marriage; life as a single mother; flings of an ardent, liberated young woman; her adoption of a second daughter from a refugee camp; marriage to the love of her life and their ensuing years of happiness, even in the shadow of illness.

There is no charge and no registration is needed to join the discussion. Call the library at 766-0118 for more information.