Well-Read Black Girl Book Club: The Sun Is Also a Star

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Join us for a discussion of the best selling novel The Sun Is Also a Star ahead of the release of its movie adaptation on May 17! Register Here The AAMI/Next Page Books Well-Read Black Girl book club will kick off with a discussion of Nicola Yoon’s 2016 best seller, The Sun Is Also a […]

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Well-Read Black Girl Book Club: Freshwater

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Register Here The AAMI/Next Page Books Well-Read Black Girl book club will continue with a discussion of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. Read on for a description from the publisher: "One of the most highly praised novels of the year, the debut from an astonishing young writer, Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a […]

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Well-Read Black Girl Book Club: That Kind of Mother

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Register Here The AAMI/Next Page Books Well-Read Black Girl book club will continue with a discussion of That Kind of Mother by Akwaeke Emezi. Read on for a description from the publisher: Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the demands of […]

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Well Read Black Girl Book Club: Hunger

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Our August book club selection will be Hunger by Roxane Gay. From the Publisher: In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. […]

Book Club Meet Up – An American Marriage

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is […]

Book Club Meet Up – Beloved

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

This is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad: a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Sethe lives in […]

Book Club Meet Up: With the Fire on High

African American Museum of Iowa 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids , IA, United States

With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her […]