Meeting/Event Description
Join us for our quarterly Neurodiversity Book Club, where we will be discussing Enchantment - the latest book from the New York Times–bestselling author of Wintering and The Electricity of Every Living Thing.
Katherine May is a late-diagnosed Autistic writer, podcaster and speaker whose work touches on nature, spirituality, slow living and neurodivergence. Her hybrid memoir Wintering was a global bestseller, adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes & Noble Book of the Year.
Her most recent title, Enchantment became an instant New York Times bestseller, and The Electricity of Every Living Thing, her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, was adapted as an audio drama by Audible. Other titles include novels such as The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, and The Best, Most Awful Job, an anthology of essays about motherhood which she edited.
Katherine writes the popular Substack newsletter, The Clearing. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, The Observer, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Aeon. She hosts the chart-topping podcast How We Live Now, and has been a guest presenter for On Being’s The Future of Hope series.
Katherine lives by the sea in Whitstable, UK, with her husband, son and pets. She loves walking, sea-swimming and cooking enormous feasts.
**This book club is sponsored by CAYR Connections and affiliated with the Chicago Neurodiverse Social Club (CNSC). CAYR Connections is a 501c3 nonprofit based in Oak Park with a mission to support neurodivergent individuals and their families in the greater Chicago area. Learn more on the CAYR Connections website www.cayrconnections.org and the CNSC group page on Meetup.com!