Why Can’t We Sleep? This Month’s Book Club Pick

Each month the Association Chat Book Club picks a book to read, study, and discuss. This month’s selection is Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun.

Interestingly, one of the book blurbs written about this non-fiction pick is from none other than Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid (among many other books), whom I interviewed on Association Chat this year! She writes:

“’Having it all’ was the Baby Boomers’ rallying cry as, aided by new tools of reproductive control, we burst from the pink ghettoes of the secretarial pool and ceaseless childcare to seek fulfillment in workaholic professions. Two generations later, despairing Gen X women find the glass mountain of fulfillment still impossible to scale, and with deep perception, wit and incisive analysis, Ada Calhoun tells us why, tracing the internal as well as the external forces that separate women from the peace they’ve spent their lives earning.”―Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
If you’d like to participate in this month’s book club discussions, make sure you are a part of the Facebook group…or let me know that you want to stay updated if you are not on Facebook. Patreon patrons at the $10/mo level and above are welcome to join or be a part of the Association Chat Book Club.
Also, if you missed Harriet Washington’s interview, you can watch it here: 

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