In partnership with the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, YWCA Northeast Kansas hosts a community book club that will feature books written by Indigenous people and people of color. All are invited to participate in monthly meetings to discuss the books and relevant social issues within our community. Discussions will be guided by YWCA’s volunteer racial justice facilitators.
Our book club meets online on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month from 7:00 to 8:30 PM via the online web conferencing platform Zoom. Although it is preferable to have read the book prior to the sessions, please feel free to join even if you haven’t read the book.
May 11th and 25th: The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen. This collection of essays is edited by Pulitzer prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, fled Vietnam with his family in 1975. In The Displaced, contributors share their unique refugee experiences, offering readers powerful, firsthand accounts of what it means to leave everything behind to seek refuge, and the real human consequences of policies that restrict refugee resettlement in our country.
