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1 PM Online Viva Village Book Club - Rough Sleepers

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Online Book Club - via Zoom - Hosted by Viva Village

When: Monthly on Tuesday from 1:00 until 2:30 PM

Registration Required: RSVP to Viva Village by sending an email message to: [email protected] or call 503-746-5082 to get the Zoom meeting link.

This month's book is: Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder. Dr. Jim O’Connell’s urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people by Tracy Kidder. This is also the 2025 selection for the Beaverton City Library’s “One Book/One Beaverton” program.

"In Rough Sleepers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder tells the inspiring story of Dr. Jim O'Connell, a gifted man who invented a community of care for Boston's unhoused population, including those who sleep on the streets - the "rough sleepers." Deferring a prestigious fellowship, O'Connell turned what was supposed to be one year of service into his life's calling with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless. Kidder spent five years traveling with Dr. O'Connell as he navigates the city streets at night, offering medical care, socks, soup, empathy, humor, and friendship to some of the city's most vulnerable residents."