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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Book Club Discussing Here for It\; Or\, How to Save Your
  Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
LOCATION:West Hollywood Library\nWest Hollywood Library
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DESCRIPTION:Join the LGBTQ+ Book Club for a hybrid (in-person and online) 
 discussion of Here for It\; Or\, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essa
 ys by R. Eric Thomas. For adults..\nhttps://lacountylibrary.libnet.info/ev
 ent/15317492
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>This is a hybrid event and will be hosted 
 in-person in the West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room as well as 
 on Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive the link to the meet
 ing via email.<a href="https://lacountylibrary.webex.com/lacountylibrary/j
 .php?MTID=mba7b1691835e16da3c49839dae72210b"></a></p>\n<p><a href="https:/
 /library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pd-Goqz4uGNNbzVuW720zsRr
 GxTK1VeLG">https://library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pd-Goq
 z4uGNNbzVuW720zsRrGxTK1VeLG</a></p>\n<p>West Hollywood Library's LGBTQ+ Bo
 ok Club meets on the last Tuesday of the month to discuss literary works o
 f relevance and interest to the LGBTQ+ community.</p>\n<p>Please contact t
 he library to borrow a print copy of the book. eBook and eAudiobook are av
 ailable through <a href="https://lacountylibrary.overdrive.com/search?quer
 y=Here+for+It%3B%C2%A0Or%2C+How+to+Save+Your+Soul+in+America">Libby app/Ov
 erDrive</a>.</p>\n<p>Summary provided by the publisher:</p>\n<p>R. Eric Th
 omas didn&rsquo\;t know he was different until the world told him so. Ever
 ywhere he went&mdash\;whether it was his rich\, mostly white\, suburban hi
 gh school\, his conservative black church\, or his Ivy League college in a
  big city&mdash\;he found himself on the outside looking in.</p>\n<p>In es
 says by turns hysterical and heartfelt\, Thomas reexamines what it means t
 o be an "other" through the lens of his own life experience. He explores t
 he two worlds of his childhood: the barren urban landscape where his paren
 ts&rsquo\; house was an anomalous bright spot\, and the Eden-like school t
 hey sent him to in white suburbia. He writes about struggling to reconcile
  his Christian identity with his sexuality\, the exhaustion of code-switch
 ing in college\, accidentally getting famous on the internet (for the wron
 g reason)\, and the surreal experience of covering the 2016 election for E
 lle online\, and the seismic changes that came thereafter. Ultimately\, Th
 omas seeks the answer to these ever more relevant questions: Is the future
  worth it? Why do we bother when everything seems to be getting worse? As 
 the world continues to shift in unpredictable ways\, Thomas finds the answ
 ers to these questions by reenvisioning what "normal" means and in the pow
 erful alchemy that occurs when you at last place yourself at the center of
  your own story.</p>\nhttps://lacountylibrary.libnet.info/event/15317492
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