It’s been a trying six months for those of us in the human race who prefer to get along, which makes Leon Logothetis’ The Kindness Diaries a welcome balm in an era of such impossible-to-ignore division and violence. The book’s subtitle says it all: One Man’s Quest to Ignite Goodwill and Transform Lives Around the World. Well, almost all: Logothetis quit his lucrative but unfulfilling stockbroker gig to travel the globe on a motorcycle, surviving on the kindness of strangers along the way — and returning their goodwill in ways both big and small. Logothetis discusses The Kindness Diaries at Joseph-Beth Booksellers.
7 p.m. Tuesday. Free. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Road, Norwood, josephbeth.com.
This article appears in Jan 7-14, 2015.