When: SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023 from 5 PM - 7 PM

Where: 2330 HARMON AVE in MEDIA ROOM on the third floor.

Free Parking on street or in the Retail and Leasing garage on Duncan Ln.

Come join us for the first revamped CTMS book club at 2300 Harmon Ave to myceliate and discuss the book The Way Through the Woods by Long Litt Woon. We will hang out, order food and drinks and connect our readings to mycology and ecology through group discussions. All are welcome, even if you didn’t finish the book!

Book summary: Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf’s unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner’s course on mushrooming—a course the two of them had planned to take together—and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life.

The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms—resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature’s cycle of death and rebirth. From idyllic Norwegian forests and urban flower beds to the sandy beaches of Corsica and New York’s Central Park, Woon uncovers an abundance of surprises often hidden in plain sight: salmon-pink Bloody Milk Caps, which ooze red liquid when cut; delectable morels, prized for their earthy yet delicate flavor; and bioluminescent mushrooms that light up the forest at night.

Along the way, she discovers the warm fellowship of other mushroom obsessives, and finds that giving her full attention to the natural world transforms her, opening a way for her to survive Eiolf’s death, to see herself anew, and to reengage with life.

Link to book here.