2024 Book Club Events
January 23 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
A queerhijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR)
March 19 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva
A chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States’ “immigration crisis”
In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border.
May 14 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
Poverty by America by Desmond Matthew
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
July 9 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spot
September 10 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of our Nation by Linda Villarosa
In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. Finally, the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.
November 12 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
The Southerinization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance
by Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker
Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America’s long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa.