UU Book Club
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For March through June, let’s read a novel, historical fiction, a novella and nonfiction.
Our next Zoom meeting is April 3, 2023 at 6:30pm via Zoom
April 3, 2023:
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Historical fiction, based in part on fact, covering US racial issues of the mid-19th century and today as well as part of the story of horse racing and breeding.
“A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.” — Goodreads.com
May 1, 2023:
Foster by Clare Keegan
This is a novella… telling the story of a young girl who’s shipped off to relatives she doesn’t know to live for a summer on a farm. … Keegan raises the question of whether this is a kindness or not to introduce a child who has been deprived to a different way of living and different relationships when she’s going to be shipped back to her parents at the end of the summer. – Maureen Corrigan, PBS
June 5, 2023:
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
The winner of the National Book Awards 2022 for Nonfiction: “An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America.” – Nationalbook.org
Previous books have included (in no particular order):
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
