The Solidarity Stories: Community - Le d Book Discussion takes place the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the upstair s lounge area of Mixt Food Hall in Brentwood\, MD. Limited parking is avai lable via the garage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Ave. Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is required\, but participants ar e welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from Mixt&rsquo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their website: https://mixtfoodhall.com.
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An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from diffe rent social classes and explores their histories &ndash\; reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 &ndash\; and exposes the private hopes\, disappointments\, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other\ , from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning auth or of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Moving forward and backwar d in time\, Jacqueline Woodson&rsquo\;s taut and powerful new novel uncove rs the role that history and community have played in the experiences\, de cisions\, and relationships of these families\, and in the life of the new child. As the book opens in 2001\, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody&rsquo\;s coming of age ceremony in her grandparents&rsquo\; Brookly n brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends\, making her e ntrance to the music of Prince\, she wears a special custom-made dress. Bu t the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier\, that very dr ess was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody&rsquo\;s mother\, for her own ceremony&ndash\; a celebration that ultimately never took pla ce. Unfurling the history of Melody&rsquo\;s family &ndash\; reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 &ndash\; to show how they all arrived at this moment\, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs\, the tolls they&rsquo\;ve paid for striving to overcom e expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desir e and identity\, ambition\, gentrification\, education\, class and status\ , and the life-altering facts of parenthood\, Red at the Bone most strikin gly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lastin g decisions about their lives&ndash\;even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.
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\nThe Solidarity Stories: Communit y - Led Book Discussion takes place the 3rd Tuesday of each month in the u pstairs lounge area of Mixt Food Hall in Brentwood\, MD. Limited parking i s available via the garage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Ave. Parking is free for program participants and no purchase is required\, but participa nts are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from Mixt&rsquo\;s ve ndors. For more information\, visit their website: https://mixtfoodhall.com
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