The Toni Morrison Book Club

De: Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams

Narrado por: Daniel Henning, Bahni Turpin, Adenrele Ojo, Robin Eller

In this startling group memoir, four friends - Black and White, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born - use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, the authors take up what it means to read challenging literature collaboratively and to learn in public as an act of individual reckoning and social resistance.

Framing their book club around collective secrets, the group bears witness to how Morrison’s works and words can propel us forward while we sit with uncomfortable questions about race, gender, and identity. How do we make space for Black vulnerability in the face of white supremacy and internalized self-loathing? How do historical novels speak to us now about the delicate seams that hold Black minds and bodies together?

This slim and brilliant confessional offers a radical vision for book clubs as sites of self-discovery and communal healing. The Toni Morrison Book Club insists that we find ourselves in fiction and think of Morrison as a spiritual guide to our most difficult thoughts and ideas about American literature and life.

©2020 Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

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There were some revelations, some things with which I did not agree.
Mostly, it was well worth the tune it took to read.

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Simply one of the most Beautiful books of 2020!!! Thank you! -t

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This was racist trash. It was truly sickening to hear the victim mentality and white hatred. With one essay, I kept waiting for the actual terrible incident to occur to explain the author’s rage against white boys. I never found it. Oh, what? He was a jerk? Boys aren’t just jerks to black girls, but maybe the authors simply aren’t aware of that fact.