Author: Ya'a Gyasi
Meeting: Wednesday, April 19 at Crystel's
Dessert: blueberry pound cake and custard
The history of slavery from it's beginning on the Gold Coast of Africa through the generations of tribes in Africa and those same generations of African Americans in the US to the present. This was a hard read for me. It's one of those books that you know you aught to read but also know the people and images will haunt you. They do.
Author: Naomi Jackson
Meeting: Wednesday, May 17th at Jane's
Phaedra and Dionne, two sisters living in Brooklyn in the 1980's, are sent by their mother to spend the summer with their grandmother in Barbados. There's a lot of tragedy and a good dose of coming of age that made it feel like a young adult novel. Good story and good discussion, but not a must read.
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