Online Book Discussion Group

UU Book Club

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After a summer break, we’ll resume on Monday, September 11, 2023 at 6:30pm via Zoom, to discuss:

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel, “…an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian family fractured by deportation, offering an intimate perspective on an experience that so many have endured—and are enduring right now.
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It is the winner of the 2021 New American Voices Award, long-listed for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal, a 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist, and a National Endowment of the Arts “Big Read” selection. Learn more:
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This is a pivot from our earlier proposed book for the summer: The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan. It’s a longer read, so we’ll move it to later in the year. (Synopsis below)
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We will be asking for book suggestions via email this summer. Please keep an eye out for a good book to suggest! If you’d like to lead the discussion, that would be appreciated.
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Save this one for a future read:

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan

The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress, and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe’s dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last moment—so why did it happen? — Goodreads.com

 

Previous books have included:

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry

Foster by Claire Keegan

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Educated by Tara Westover

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Search by Michelle Huneven

Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder

The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist by Dorothy Day

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner