Experiencing America Book Club: Good Talk

What does it mean to live in America now?

What does America look like?

How did we get to be who and where we are?

Let's talk about our lives in America today.

Our book selections, provided by the CT State Library, will be from the Experiencing America collection, made up of adult and young adult books offering perspectives and voices that are intentionally human-centered explorations of identities and systems impacting contemporary America.

In August the group will review Good Talk: A Memoir In Conversations by Mira Jacob.

"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love.

How brown is too brown?
Can Indians be racist?
What does real love between really different people look like?

Written with humor and vulnerability, this deeply relatable graphic memoir is a love letter to the art of conversation—and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions."—mirajacob.com

Join us to engage in this monthly multigenerational book discussion for adults and teens.

This program is presented in collaboration with the Clinton Human Rights Committee.

Registration is not required, but guests may register if they would like to request a copy of the book and receive a reminder email the day before the event.