Do you want to read books by amazing Black women writers? Do you want to discuss works from a Black feminist perspective(s)? Do you want to do all of this in an awesome gem of a feminist bookstore? Then the Black Feminist Book Club is for you! Charis Circle board chair Susana Morris is the facilitator of this group. This summer and fall we are reading Black Feminist contemporary memoir. All community members are welcome to participate! This is a Charis Circle from margin to center literary event and the suggested donation is $5.
September's Book is Soldier by June Jordan
October's Book is Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
A profoundly moving childhood memoir by one of the most widely acclaimed Black American writers of her generation
Captured with astonishing beauty, through the eyes of a child, Soldier paints the battleground of June Jordan’s youth as the gifted daughter of Jamaican immigrants, struggling under the humiliations of racism, sexism, and poverty
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
A National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book