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Libri Labra Book Club

In November 2016, a couple of days after Donald Trump won the presidential election, I attended YALLFest in South Carolina for the first time. The air was heavy with disappointment while groups of authors and readers gathered in downtown Charleston to talk about books. I assumed that no one would mention the election, but reality was quite the opposite. EVERYONE was talking about it. Every single panel mentioned the election in some capacity. Each author used it as an opportunity to stress the i ...more

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The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

Start date: February 1, 2025

Finish date: February 28, 2025

Discussion: Group Reads

Discussion leader: Tom

Why we're reading this: When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile refo…more
[close] When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood鈥檚 only salvation is his friendship with fellow 鈥渄elinquent鈥� Turner, which deepens despite Turner鈥檚 conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood鈥檚 ideals and Turner鈥檚 skepticism leads to a decision whose repercussions will echo down the decades.

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