We will meet at the Quaker meetinghouse in West Hartford to discuss *Attempting Normal* by vegan author and comedian Marc Maron, and a selection from this year’s project book, *Cooking from the Spirit* by Tabitha Brown.

☕️ Doors open at 2:45 for socializing and refreshments. 🧁
Discussion starts at 3 PM.

You are welcome to bring a vegan snack (optional).
Coffee and tea will be provided.

**About the book:**
Marc Maron is “a master of spinning humor out of anguish” (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self-inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together twenty-five stories from his life and near-death, from his first comedy road trips (with a fugitive junkie comic with a missing tooth) to his love affair with feral animals (his cat rescues are bloody epics) to his surprisingly moving tales of lust, heartbreak, and hope. The stories are united by Maron’s thrilling storytelling style—intensely smart, disarmingly honest, and explosively funny. Together, they add up to a hilarious and moving tale of failing, flailing, and finding a way.