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SUMMARY:Community Book Talk @THP South
LOCATION:Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch\nTarea Hall Pittman South Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a community book discussion of author Camille T. D
 ungy's title Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden in correlation wit
 h the author talk later this month. .\nhttps://berkeleypubliclibrary.libne
 t.info/event/13905177
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>We will be discussing the book <em><strong
 >Soil by Camille T. Dungy&nbsp\;</strong></em>as a community and dive into
  the themes explored in this title.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Limited free copies of 
 the book are available at the Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch Library info
  desk. While supplies last.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Please join us for the in perso
 n Berkeley Public Library Author talk featuring Camille T. Dungy discussin
 g her title in person at the UC Botanical Gardens. See event info here <a 
 href="https://berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/13907816">Author Tal
 k with Camille T. Dungy</a></p>\n<p><em><strong>About the Book</strong></e
 m></p>\n<p>A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world
  and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Ca
 mille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.</p>\n<p>In 
 Soil: The Story of a Black Mother&rsquo\;s Garden\, poet and scholar Camil
 le T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the
  predominantly white community of Fort Collins\, Colorado. When she moved 
 there in 2013 with her husband and daughter\, the community held restricti
 ons about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In re
 sistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonde
 r that grows from the earth\, Dungy employs the various plants\, herbs\, v
 egetables\, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise f
 or how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet\, and why cultivatin
 g diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the 
 environment is the best means of protecting it.</p>\n<p>Definitive and sin
 gular\, Soil functions at the nexus of nature writing\, environmental just
 ice\, and prose to encourage you to recognize the relationship between the
  peoples of the African diaspora and the land on which they live\, and to 
 understand that wherever soil rests beneath their feet is home.</p>\n<p>-S
 imon &amp\; Schuster\, May 2\, 2023</p>\nhttps://berkeleypubliclibrary.lib
 net.info/event/13905177
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