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The Port Orchard Library book group meets monthly on the third Tuesday of every month to discuss both fiction and nonfiction. The book group holds hybrid meetings with both in-person at the library and Zoom options available. Each month's book will be available at the Port Orchard library a month before the discussion.

This month's book: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about Talking to People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

From the Publisher:

Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt.

Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

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