The memoir Lab Girl by Hope Jahren will be the book for the next Book Discussion at Jeudevine Library in Hardwick. The discussion will be on Thursday, November 18 at 5:15 PM.

Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done "with both the heart and the hands"; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.

Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.

Copies of the book are available for check-out now at the library. At this moment the library intends to have the discussion at the library which has recently purchased air purifiers for the building. However, depending on the number of COVID cases in the area, the discussion might be changed to an online discussion. For more information call the library at 472-5948.