2019 Events
Book Discussion of "How to Make a Life: The Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted" by Madeline Uraneck led by Rachel Stoyke
Tuesday, October 22 at 6:00 p.m.
at the Plymouth Public Library (map)
Author Madeline Uraneck is a consultant in international education for the state of Wisconsin. In this memoir, she writes of her long friendship with one family of Tibetan refugees from India. She details their family history, their experiences in India, and how they finally landed in Madison, Wisconsin. As they invite her into their home and their lives, Uraneck learns lessons of friendship, human rights, intercultural communication, and acceptance. She also reflects on what the young people in the family have taught her about the flaws in educational policies that she helped enact
Book Discussion of "How to Make a Life: The Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted" by Madeline Uraneck led Leslie Jochman and Georgia Tucker
Wednesday, October 30 at 6:00 p.m.
at Generations in the Library (map)
Author Madeline Uraneck is a consultant in international education for the state of Wisconsin. In this memoir, she writes of her long friendship with one family of Tibetan refugees from India. She details their family history, their experiences in India, and how they finally landed in Madison, Wisconsin. As they invite her into their home and their lives, Uraneck learns lessons of friendship, human rights, intercultural communication, and acceptance. She also reflects on what the young people in the family have taught her about the flaws in educational policies that she helped enact