Sunday, September 21
7:00 pm
Darin Strauss
More Than It Hurts You
$9, Discounted Member Price $6
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From the acclaimed author of Chang and Eng comes the story of Josh Goldin, a young Jewish father whose life gets turned upside down when his eight-month-old son is rushed to the hospital. When baby Zack is treated twice for mysterious and life-threatening symptoms, the head of a pediatric ICU, Dr. Darlene Stokes—a black woman—tells Child Protective Services that she thinks Josh's wife, Dori, suffers from Munchausen by proxy syndrome, whereby the afflicted deliberately injure their children to draw attention to themselves. Immediately, they’re thrust into an irresistible news story: a single black mother intent on splitting apart a Jewish family. More Than It Hurts You, a frightening and riveting account of a family in crisis, explores complicated issues of race, gender, privacy and a family’s threats from within and without.

“If you don't belong to a book club, Darin Strauss's bitter and brilliant new novel is reason enough to start one.”

-The Washington Post

Darin Strauss is the author of the international bestseller Chang and Eng and The New York Times Notable Book The Real McCoy. Also a screenwriter, he is currently adapting Chang and Eng with Gary Oldman. The recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he teaches writing at New York University.

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