The Bixby Knolls Literary Society is staging its regular meeting Wednesday, Feb.9 at 7 p.m. at the Expo, 4321 Atlantic Avenue.
Father Greg Boyle, the author of the February selection "Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion" will attend the meeting. Boyle is a Jesuit priest and founder of Homeboy Industries, which help gang member in the Los Angeles barrios turn around their lives.
He will talk about his memoir and work with gang intervention, rehabilitation & social justice.
Copies of the book will be on sale at the meeting.
Parking available along Atlantic Avenue.
This is what has been said about the book and Boyle's work:
"In this artful, disquieting, yet surprisingly jubilant memoir, Jesuit priest Boyle recounts his two decades of working with homies in Los Angeles County, which contains 1,100 gangs with nearly 86,000 members. Effectively straddling the debate regarding where the responsibility for urban violence lies, Boyle both recounts the despair of watching the kids you love cooperate in their own demise and levels the challenge to readers to stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it. From moving vignettes about gangsters breaking into tears or finding themselves worthy of love and affirmation, to moments of spiritual reflection and sidesplittingly funny banter between him and the homies, Boyle creates a convincing and even joyful treatise on the sacredness of every life." © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
"Boyle is a nationally renowned speaker and an acknowledged expert on gangs and intervention who gives about two hundred talks per year. He and his work have been featured on The Today Show, 60 Minutes, The Bob Edwards Show, Fresh Air and in numerous print articles. His non-profit, Homeboy Industries, provides jobs to reformed gang members and counts actors Martin Sheen and Anjelica Huston among its biggest supporters."
--Christine Donnelly
Homeboy Industries supports five businesses where enemy/rival gang members work side by side (Homeboy Bakery, Homegirl Cafe, Homeboy Silkscreen, Homeboy/Homegirl Merchandise and Homeboy Maintenance). To support Father Greg Boyle and his work, please visit www.Homeboy-Industries.org
Refreshments will be provided
For more information call the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association:
(562) 595-0081 or email: info@bixbyknollsinfo.com
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