Virtual Book Club

This month we will be reading

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

"In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson 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 shaped 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 this extraordinary book.

Future Book Club Reads (for more information 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 recommend this 1994 translation, which is considered closer to the original than the 1924 translation by Helen T. Lowe-Porter.

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