If you have any questions about the program or would like to register\, which is limited to the first 20 people\, please contac t Bonnie Hershberg by September 2 at hersh3b@gmail.com.
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;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Virtual:geo:38.8122835,-77.11718 99 GEO:38.8122835;-77.1171899 DESCRIPTION:Please join us online for a discussion of Brit Bennett's 2020 novel. .\nhttps://alexandria.libnet.info/event/11627219 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Vignes twin sisters will always be ide ntical. But after growing up together in a small\, southern black communit y and running away at age sixteen\, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults\, it's everything: their families\, the ir communities\, their racial identities. Many years later\, one sister li ves with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to es cape. The other passes for white\, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still\, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies\, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next ge neration\, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving togethe r multiple strands and generations of this family\, from the Deep South to California\, from the 1950s to the 1990s\, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting\, emotional family story and a brilliant explor ation of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of ra ce\, "The Vanishing Half" considers the lasting influence of the past as i t shapes a person's decisions\, desires\, and expectations\, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pul led to live as something other than their origins.
\nThe Diversity B ook Club is hosted monthly by AAUW Alexandria / Women Building Cross-Cultu ral Friendships (WBCCF) and co-sponsored by the Alexandria Burke Branch Li brary.
\nWBCCF's goal is to give women the opportunity in a diverse and inclusive group to enrich their own lives through these relationships and help amplify the voices of all women in our community. WBCCF \;bel ieves that the opportunity to come together to explore issues of race\, re ligion\, ethnicity\, etc. through well-chosen books will not only further our individual learning but also create a setting in which we might ultima tely decide on a community undertaking with wider implications.
\nTh e Diversity Book Club meets on the second Monday of each month at 7 PM.&nb sp\;
\nThis program will take place by Zoom and registration is requ ired. After registering with Bonnie Hershberg\, you will be emailed the li nk to join this Zoom meeting. \;
\nIf you have any questions abo ut the program or would like to register\, which is limited to the first 2 0 people\, please contact Bonnie Hershberg by September 2 hersh3b@gmail.co m.
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