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This month the Community Book Club will be reading The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Summary (from the official blurb):
“Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women—her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries—that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead.
To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors—Indigenous, Black, and white—in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story—and the song—of America itself.”
Book club meeting dates:
Monday, May 4th at 6:30 pm | email Dana at migratingbutterfly@gmail.com for exact location. There will be cake and tea!!
Tuesday, May 19th at 6:30 pm | Location TBD
Tuesday, June 2nd at 6:30 pm | Location TBD
Tuesday, June 9th at 6:30 pm |Location TBD
Please email Dana migratingbutterfly@gmail.com if you want to join the club!