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Listen to Sarah Enright as she recommends Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate.
This is Sarah Enright, with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to Check It Out.
Today, I am recommending Christie Tate’s original debut memoir, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life. On the outside Christie Tate appeared to have her life together, she had, by all accounts, conquered her eating disorder and was just named top of her class in law school. Inside, trauma and crippling sorrow from her past drew her into toxic relationships with unavailable men. This proved to be an inadequate remedy time and time again, ultimately triggering fantasies of ending it all. Her last resort? Therapy.
Students across the state of Iowa went to school yesterday for the first time without the requirement of wearing masks. This also included the Sioux City
This week on The Exchange, how the medical victories of the past can help us move forward in dealing with the coronavirus. Today, we hear some little-known stories of medical and scientific innovations that doubled the human lifespan in the 20th century. We talk with the force behind the new PBS Series
Extra Life: The Science of Living Longer, Steven Johnson. The series begins this week.
Also, science is getting closer to giving people expanded, and some say, superhuman abilities. We talk with researcher David Broyles about the future of superhuman powers.
We also have a conversation with Iowa Auditor Robb Sand about state finances and accountability, and his possible political future.
This is Barb Gross with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to “Check it Out.”
Today, I’m recommending
Winter Counts, a remarkable debut novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden, a member of the Lakota Nation of South Dakota. At first glance it’s an action-packed, gritty thriller, but Weiden also explores many social issues faced by Native Americans.
Virgil Wounded Horse is the novel’s flawed but endearing main character. He’s a vigilante, and his job is to bring justice to Native people who have nowhere else to turn. The Federal government often ignores crimes committed on the reservation, and tribal police can’t prosecute felonies. That’s where Virgil comes in. He enjoys administering justice, with his fists, to men who hurt women and children. Sounds grim, right? But oddly enough, the book has many humorous moments as well.