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Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library, but even those who have not read the book are invited to Rawl’ s April 4 talk.
Previous Brown County Reads programs have featured authors Philip Gulley, Scott Russell Sanders, Mike Mullin, and a biographer of“ Charlotte’ s Web” creator E. B. White.•
This year’ s community book read selection is“ Positive” by Indianapolis native Paige Rawl, a memoir which details the severe bullying she faced as a teen born HIV-positive, and how she coped with it.
The fifth annual Brown County Reads program, cosponsored by the Brown County Public Library and the Brown County Literacy Coalition, will include a talk by Rawl from 7 to 8:30 p. m. April 4 at the library. The“ meet the author” event is free and open to all.
Before the talk, she will meet with high school and junior high students in Nashville.
Rawl is now a college student working on degree in entrepreneurship and business. She is also hopes to start her own organization for HIV education and anti-bullying advocacy.
“ It’ s a complicated and sometimes sad and seriously beautiful world we live in,” Rawl said in her 2014 book.“ There’ s plenty of work to be done.”
The book is the top best-selling teen book dealing with illnesses on amazon. com, and ranks in the top 10 for teen books on both bullying and social activist biographies on the website.
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for trying something, he will support you just because you are his brother.
If you are lucky and you have a good relationship with your brothers, this close bond lasts beyond childhood. When I watched my father with his brothers, huddled together at some family event, laughing and talking in some lifelong shorthand of shared experience, I was seeing into my future, sitting around with my own brothers over a holiday table, laughing and talking about things only we remember or even care about.
Coincidently, my wife grew up in a family of four sisters, so we have sort of mirror families in that regard. I would venture to say most of these virtues of brotherhood apply equally to sisterhood.
Now, my granddaughter has four young boys, and I am getting a chance to study this“ all brothers” family dynamic from another angle.
Of course, times are different now, but some things never change. Watching them play together in the back yard, I glimpse that same barefoot band of brothers of my own childhood. •
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