Hard Conversations Book Club
If you are interested in reading and thinking in community about issues that matter, consider joining the Hard Conversations Book Club, which meets online monthly to discuss a book that will challenge, educate, inspire, and/or motivate you.
Join the ConversationThe Art of Activism: Hard Conversations Book Club reads a book each month that will illuminate a path for accessing, reclaiming, and deepening our shared humanity. We will spend this year learning things we have not known, so we can respond to other human beings from a place of knowing, and not from a place of fear.
We will meet online in a private Facebook Group, and on the third Sunday of each month we will have an interactive phone/web meeting to explore our responses to each book from 8-9pm Eastern. Those meetings will be recorded for those who cannot join us live.
2023 Book List – Focusing on works by and about immigrants and refugees.
- January – Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
- February – Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal by Aviva Chomsky
- March – Open City by Teju Cole
- April – Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- May – The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Bezmozgis (ed)
- June – A Free Life by Ha Jin
- July – The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Din Nayeri
- August – The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo
- September – The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla, Chimene Suleyman, editors.
- October – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean Vuong
- November – The Devil’s Highway by Luis Urrea
- December – The Leavers by Lisa Ko