Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Can we accept our limitations?


I was discussing books with a person and they recommended the book So B. It by Sarah Weeks.  I was told that it was an excellent read.  When I read the summary I was intrigued, I wanted to know more.  

As an adult we have a hard time accepting our limitations, because as adults we feel that we should be able to do and know whatever we want.  As a child, it was always the question "why?"  There is that stopping point, as a child we were limited by what our parents told us we could know, or what our friends knew.

Join us for the discussion of So B. It by Sarah Weeks.  We will discuss how we either overcome or accept our limitations.

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Book summary: 

Heidi is a twelve-year-old girl with a mentally disabled mother, but who is otherwise extremely lucky. She is taken care of by her next-door neighbor, Bernadette, at whose door the two appeared when Heidi was about a week old. She has no other family of whom she is aware, as the agoraphobic Bernadette had been unable to find any clue of their origins. Before stumbling upon an old disposable camera, Heidi has no further information other than that her mother's 23-word vocabulary includes the word soof, which she assumes holds some meaning she longs to uncover. As she travels alone from Reno, Nevada to Liberty, New York to visit the group home in the photographs and question its tight-lipped manager, she is assisted by strangers on the bus and Liberty residents. Meanwhile, she questions the idea of whether all truths are knowable, and in light of bad luck, a tragedy that strikes during her trip, and the uncomfortable nature of the truth, she also questions whether knowing the truth is always a worthwhile pursuit. The heartwarming ending shows Heidi learning not only the meanings of the mysterious soof, but also learning to be comfortable with the limitations on what she can know.

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