Book Clubs & Reading Groups

We will discuss Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots. About the Book: his debut is a hilariously sly indictment of our knee-jerk ideas of good and bad, asking pointed questions about the cost of "justice." Anna is a "Hench"--a data science temp who helps super villains operate at the cutting edge of evil. Anna rationalizes that being a cog in the villain machine isn't that different than being a cog in the corporate machine. When she becomes collateral damage and is badly injured during a superhero rescue, she (of course) gets laid off. Broke, angry and bedbound, she starts a website that calculates the human cost of the mayhem superheroes wreak upon the world. Once she gets into the weeds of the data, it's clear that…