Mon, Sep 21
|Blue Valley Public Library
OP Hobbies: Reading with Readers - "Everything is Tuberculosis"
Order a copy of "Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green who tells the story of Henry Reider, a young TB patient who he meets at a hospital in Sierra Leone and weaves his story with the scientific and social histories of how TB has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of TB.
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2026, 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM
Blue Valley Public Library, 9000 W 151st St, Overland Park, KS 66221, USA
About the Event
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.
In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
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Tickets
Reading with Readers
Includes all applicable sales tax and is nonrefundable.
$5.00
+$0.13 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00