Memoirs and Coffee Book Group to Discuss "The Girl Factory" at Bernardsville Library

The next meeting of Bernardsville Public Library’s book discussion group, Memoirs and Coffee, will be held on Tuesday, May 26 to 10:30 am in the library’s Community Room. Manager Pat Kennedy-Grant will lead the discussion of “The Girl Factory: A Memoir” (2013) by Karen Dietrich. [The author will not be present.]

This evocative memoir chronicles the fourteen years of the author’s life after an employee goes on a shooting spree, killing four supervisors and then himself, at the glass where her parents were lifelong workers. It was 1985 and she was eight years old. As Karen moves through girlhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, the book illuminates small-town factory life; explores a complicated mother-daughter bond; and thoughtfully unfolds a smart, but insecure girl’s coming of age.

Karen Dietrich is an adjunct English instructor at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and Westmoreland County Community College. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Pittsburgh City Paper, Nerve, the Bellingham Review, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere.

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