April Virtual Book Club!

We welcome you to join us on April 21, 2021 at 7pm via Zoom to discuss the book “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson. This is an open event for the residents & their guests who would like to join us. 

“In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.” – Amazon

Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on Wednesday, April 21st at 7pm!

Virtual Book Club!

We welcome you to join us on March 17, 2021 at 7pm via Zoom to discuss the book “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett. This is an open event for the residents & their guests who would like to join us. 

“The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect?” – Amazon

Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on Wednesday, March 17th at 7pm!

Virtual Book Club!

We welcome you to join us on February 17, 2021 at 7pm via Zoom to discuss the book “The Biggest Bluff” by Maria Konnikova. This is an open event for the residents & their guests who would like to join us.

“The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post

Sound interesting? If so, start reading and join us on Wednesday, February 17th at 7pm!