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DTSTART:20330327T030000 RDATE:20331030T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Berlin CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20340326T030000 RDATE:20341029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Berlin CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20350325T030000 RDATE:20351028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Berlin CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20360330T030000 RDATE:20361026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Berlin CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8718a5b646d2652c5e5162ad1b9d0dfa CATEGORIES:AWCH Calendar CREATED:20220310T174740 SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club LOCATION:Virtual DESCRIPTION:Virtual Book Club\n\nThis month we will be reading\n\nCaste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson\n\n"In this brilliant book, Isabel Wil kerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been s haped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
\nBeau tifully written, original, and revealing, Caste is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of o rdinary lives and of American life today." (Penguin Random House)\nNonficti on, 474 pages\nWe hope you can join us for a discussion of this extraordina ry book.\n\nFuture Book Club Reads (for more information see the calendar e ntry):\nMay 18: The Promise by Damon Galgut\nJune 15: The Magician by Colm Tóibín\nAugust 17: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, tr anslated by John E. Wood. Note: we recommend this 1994 translation, which i s considered closer to the original than the 1924 translation by Helen T. L owe-Porter.\n\n\n\nContact Carol S. at This email address is being protecte d from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.\n \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Virtual Book Club

Caste

This month we will be reading

Caste: The Origins of Our Discon tents by Isabel Wilkerson

"In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilk erson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as s he explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been sh aped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.


Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today." (Penguin Random House)

Nonfiction, 474 pages

We hope you can join us for a discussion of th is extraordinary book.

Future Book Club Reads (for more inform ation see the calendar entry):

May 18: The Promise by Damon Galgut

June 15: The Magician by Colm Tóibín

August 17: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Wood. Note: we r ecommend this 1994 translation, which is considered closer to the original than the 1924 translation by Helen T. Lowe-Porter.



Contact Carol S. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You nee d JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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