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Lunch Break Book Club - Somebody I Used to Know

Take a break in your day and join us for our Lunch Break Book Club! Whether you are caregiving or looking for a way to connect with others, together we will explore timely topics while engaging with fellow community members. Sponsored by Hospice of the Piedmont and Senior Resources of Guilford, the Book Club focuses on caregivers although anyone in the community is invited to participate.

Event Details

Join us on Thursday, January 8 as we begin exploring our next book selection Somebody I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell. The kickoff event will be a chance to meet other participants and take part in an introduction to the book. All participants will reconvene on Thursday, February 12 after reading the selection for a book club discussion. Attendance at the kickoff event is required to be part of the discussion.

Somebody I Used to Know
Thursday, January 8
12 noon
High Point Public Library | Morgan Community Room
901 N. Main Street, High Point
(refreshments will be provided)

Registration

Registration is required by completing the form below by Wednesday, January 7. If you have questions, please contact Ryan Biagini at 336-889-8446.

About the Book

Somebody I Used to Know
by Wendy Mitchell

Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters alone, and spent her weekends running and climbing mountains. Then, slowly, a mist settled deep inside the mind she once knew so well, blurring the world around her. She didn’t know it then, but dementia was starting to take hold. In 2014, at age fifty-eight, she was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s.

A chronicle of one woman’s struggle to make sense of her shifting world and her mortality, Somebody I Used to Know offers a powerful rumination on memory, perception, and the simple pleasure of living in the moment. Philosophical, poetic, intensely personal, and ultimately hopeful, this moving memoiris both a tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell used to be and a brave affirmation of the woman she has become.

January 8, 2026 12:00 pm

High Point Public Library

901 N. Main Street, High Point, NC, 27262

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