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The Serviceberry (Beyond Fiction Book Club)

Wauconda Area Public Library

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Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm

801 N Main St, Wauconda, IL, United States, Illinois 60084

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Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm (CDT)

801 N Main St, Illinois 60084

801 N Main St, Wauconda, IL 60084-1235, United States

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The Serviceberry (Beyond Fiction Book Club)
Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk.
Register to join us: https://www.wauclib.org/event/bfbc-jul-placeholder-36336

We look forward to reading and discussing with you!

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.” As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is “a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.”


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The Serviceberry (Beyond Fiction Book Club), 28 July | Event in Wauconda | AllEvents
The Serviceberry (Beyond Fiction Book Club)
Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm