The Banner Book Club October Meeting: Featuring Jeannie Vanasco, Author of A SILENT TREATMENT
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Spark Public Space, The Power Plant, 4th Floor, 621 E. Pratt St., Baltimore · Baltimore, MD
About this event
Join the Banner Book Club! The Banner Book Club celebrates local Maryland writers and their books. Moderated by a Banner journalist, we host a monthly live book club gathering at our offices with the author in-person . It’s a great opportunity to dive into the book with the author and fellow book club members, where you can share in the thoughtful conversation and questions on the books. By registering with your name and email, you’ll receive advance notice of our book review date, ensuring you don’t miss this engaging discussion. The Banner Book Club is your chance to connect with fellow readers, explore Baltimore’s literary heritage, and engage with the trusted journalism that drives positive change in Maryland. Register today to be a part of the Banner Book Club! Up Next: A Silent Treatment: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco. Use code BANNERBOOKCLUB for 10% off your book club purchase at this link. A Silent Treatment: A Memoir: Jeannie Vanasco’s mother starts using the silent treatment not long after moving into the renovated apartment within Jeannie’s home. The silences begin at any perceived slight. Her shortest period of silence lasts two weeks. Her longest, six months. As Vanasco guides us through her mother’s childhood, their shared past, and the devastating silence of their present, she paints a layered, complicated portrait of a mother and daughter looking, failing, and–in big and small ways–succeeding to understand each other. In the margins of her research, at her kitchen table with her partner, in phone calls to friends, and in delightful hey google queries, Vanasco explores the loneliness and isolation of silence as punishment, both in her own life and beyond it, and confronts her greatest fear: that her mother will never speak to her again. “ A Silent Treatment confronts both the complexity of family and the quandary of capturing a family’s shapeshifting and perplexing love, their truthful and devoted love, in the amber of memoir.” – Megha Majumdar, best-selling author of A Guardian and a Thief Join fellow book club members as they discuss the book with the author Jeannie Vanasco in-person , Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs A Silent Treatment, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, and The Glass Eye, all published by Tin House. Her essays have appeared in The Believer, a McSweeney’s anthology, The New York Times Magazine, and the Times Literary Supplement. She lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University. Her fourth book is under contract with Tin House.
Event details
- Date and time
- Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
- Venue
- Spark Public Space, The Power Plant, 4th Floor, 621 E. Pratt St., Baltimore · Baltimore, MD
- Category
- Books & reading
- Cost
- Cost not stated
- Age guidance
- Age guidance not specified
- Format
- In person
- Last verified
- October 3, 2026
Accessibility
Wheelchair: Not stated
Assistive Listening: Not stated
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