Virtual Social Justice Book Club
Meets First Thursdays of the month at 6pm on Zoom
Join us for monthly discussions of thought-provoking books through a social justice lens. Registrants will be encouraged to pursue positive actions to uplift their respective communities. Social Justice Book Club will recur throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please email Melissa Carr at carrm@mendocinocounty.org or call 707-234-2862 to sign up. All registrants will receive an email invite to participate via Zoom.
December's book is The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Book summary:
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage -- and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child -- but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North." -- Provided by publisher.
There are also
eBook and
audiobook versions available through the library's Libby app.
