[OPLINLIST] Dopesick author Beth Macy comes to BG April 1

Tue Mar 19 15:36:12 EDT 2019

Dear Friend,

The opioid crisis is touching the lives of so very many people in our
country, in our state, and in our local community.  Libraries are here to
help with information to help us understand complex issues.

WCDPL is proud to bring New York Times bestselling author Beth Macy to BG
on April 1at (7pm at the BG Schools Performing Arts Center on West Poe
Road) to discuss her book Dopesick.

"Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets
about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics,
Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question-why her only son
died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the
introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a
medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In
some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book
Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of
joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in
cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution,
jail, and death.

Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first
responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis
comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows,
astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic
and class lines is opioid drug abuse."

I hope you will join us on April 1st at the Performing Arts Center on West
Poe Road in BG.  Please get your free tickets NOW (see the link below).
Also, please share this information with your friends and colleagues.

Sincerely,
Michael

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Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:14 AM
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Welcome Beth Macy, BGSU aluma and bestselling nonficiton author, to WCDPL
Monday, April 1.

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You are invited to attend:   An Evening with Beth Macy
Monday, April 1, 2019, 7:00 PM

Meet Beth Macy, author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books
*Truevine* and *Factory Man*.

Based in Roanoke, Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more
than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism
at Harvard. Ms. Macy comes to Bowling Green Monday, April 1 to discuss her
most recent book, *Dopesick*. An instant New York Times bestseller,
Dopesick charts the devastating opioid crisis in America: “a harrowing,
deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency” (New
York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through
it.

A book signing follows Ms. Macy's talk. Books available to purchase from
the Friends of the Library.

Event FAQs

   - The event is free, should I bring my ticket(s) for it with me?  Yes,
   please bring a printed or electronic copy of your ticket(s) to the event.
   - Is there assigned seating? No. Seating is by general admission.
   - Will books be available for purchase at the event? Yes. Copies of
   select titles by Ms. Macy will be sold by the Friends of the Library.
   Checks or cash only, please.
   - For more information, contact the library at 419-352-5104.

Ms. Macy will be appearing at the Bowling Green City Schools' Performing
Arts Center, 530 W. Poe Rd. View location on a map here.
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Bowling Green, OH).
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