Event Details
Event Type: Online Class
Tue
March 04, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00pm
At your computer/device
Event Registration
Winter Book Club Discussion
Co-sponsored by the Stanford Faculty Staff Help Center
You are invited to join us for a virtual book club to discuss thoughts raised by the book The Burgess Boys, by Elizabeth Strout. Strout’s book is a compelling read, with stories that encourage us to reflect and relate. In The Burgess Boys we witness how adult siblings experience going home, inviting the reader to see how siblings may leave a place behind, but not their family of origin.
Strout – a master narrator of individual inner worlds – invites us to react to her characters’ all-too-real strain to leave behind a home that itself will not stay constant. Set within our contemporary American immigration stories – and the political violence of resisting change – this novel encourages us to relate our own story of how we circle in orbit around our family of origin that itself changes over time.
Please read the book on your own in advance and join us online for discussion facilitated by the Stanford Faculty Staff Help Center.
This class will not be recorded. Attendance requirement for incentive points – at least 80% of the live session.
Request disability accommodations and access info.
Facilitators: Rosan Gomperts, LCSW, is the director of the Faculty Staff Help Center and has been licensed as a clinical social worker since 2002. She works with individuals and couples as well as facilitating conflicts and giving courses and coaching in emotional intelligence and communicating with tact and skill.
Roland Hsu, LCSW, is a counselor at the Stanford Faculty Staff Help Center. He has worked and taught at Stanford over the past twenty years in a variety of positions.
Class details are subject to change.