2017 Hard Conversations Book Club Reading List Announced

December 2, 2016 in Uncategorized
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I’ve just announced the 2017 reading list for the Hard Conversations Book Group. Feel free to join us! The book group is free and we meet by teleconference call the 3rd Sunday of each month from 8-9pm Eastern to discuss that month’s book.

Our focus in 2017 is on books written by women of color:

January – Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
February – The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
March – Birdie by Tracey Lindbergh
April – Zami by Audre Lorde
May – You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
June – Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
July – Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School by Monique W. Morris
August – Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre
September – Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
October – The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
November – Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
December – Borderlands, La Frontera, The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua

Go here to join the Book Club (free).

 

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

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