Figuring by Maria Popova

​About the Event:
The event will be a discussion of the book, anyone who has read the book is free to join. Attendees will each get the chance to express their general impressions of the book, and then the host will take us through some discussion points and moderate the session

​About the book:

​Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement.

​Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists--mostly women, mostly queer--whose public contribution has risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson.

​Book Reviews
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/07/figuring-maria-popova-review

​https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-mind-has-a-mind-of-its-own-on-maria-popovas-figuring/

​Where to get the book
The book is available in the Kindle store, at Kinokuniya, and you can also order it through amazon.ae.