We will be discussing "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande. Copies of this month's book can be picked up from the West Indianapolis Branch. Adults are invited to this free monthly book discussion program.
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande is available as a print book, an e-book, an audiobook CD, in large print, and a downloadable audiobook in the Library's collection.
"Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill."
The first West Indianapolis Branch opened in 1897, following the annexation of West Indianapolis into the city of Indianapolis. A new building on West Morris Street, constructed with funds from a $120,000 grant by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, opened in 1912 and served the community until 1986, when the current 5,000-square-foot branch began service on South Kappes Street.
