This month the Kepler’s Non-Fiction Book Club will discuss The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet.

On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel―the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done: she charged a gentleman with rape. Join us to discuss this book about the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries―and how much has not.

You can order a copy of the book from Kepler’s here.

What is the Non-Fiction Book Club?

Kepler’s Non-Fiction Book Club has been meeting since 2010. We cover all non-fiction genres from soup to nuts. Our meetings are monthly and we meet at 3:00pm every first Tuesday of the month via google meets. We welcome new attendees, and book suggestions and we vote every three months on the books suggested. I hope you feel free to join in whenever the spirit moves you.- Sina Herkelrath book club coordinator.

If you would like to attend any Book Club events please reach out to Heather Birchall at events@keplers.org to receive the Google Meet link.