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Democracy & Dissent Book Group
Books for the group are 10% off the month prior to the discussion.
Discussion on Sunday, May 6 at 2:00pm.
The enslavement of communities from North America and the Caribbean broke down entire nations and irreparably erased cultural and political ecosystems. American schoolchildren are taught that smallpox was the epidemic that gutted Native American populations after exposure to Europeans. In this award-winning book, Reséndez suggests that the epidemic was actually the Europeans themselves.
Discussion on Sunday, June 3 at 2:00pm.
Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America--including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, and Rebecca Solnit.
From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world’s most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation.