Please join us for Women Reading via Zoom Wednesday, February 17 at 7:30 pm as Gloria Turner and Sylvia Henry lead a discussion of Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald. NPR reviewer Michael Shaub says: “In Helen Macdonald’s new essay collection, Vesper Flights, her first book since her critically acclaimed memoir H Is for Hawk, cautions us to avoid hopelessness. It's a stunning book that urges us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world, and fight to preserve it. “ Vesper Flights is a beautiful and generous book, one that offers hope to a world in desperate need of it. "Literature can teach us the qualitative texture of the world. And we need it to. We need to communicate the value of things, so that more of us might fight to save them," Macdonald writes. And that's exactly what she's done in this essential collection. If you are not already on the Women Reading email list, email us at office@westwoodpres.org to be added and receive the Zoom link prior to the meeting.