Joan diver will read from her new book When the Spirit Calls: A Healing Odyssey. Joan and her husband Colin are former South End residents were featured in the Pulitzer-prize winning book about the 1970s school integration crisis in Boston by J. Anthony Lukas, A Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Sponsored by Friends of the South End Library.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.