Book Clubs

Book Club: Mission Bay Reads

Poverty, by America and/or The Heat Will Kill You First
Wednesday, 1/31/2024
6:30 - 7:30
Mission Bay Program Room
Mission Bay

960 4th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States

415-355-2838

In Poverty, by America Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond reimagines the debate on poverty, making the new and bracing argument that it persists in America because the rest of us benefit from it.

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell explains how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it.

Read one or both books.

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