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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Set in Louisiana, this novel is set against the backdrop of a small Cajun community during the Jim Crow Era. Jefferson, a young black man, is accused and convicted of murder for perpetrating a shoot-out in a liquor store, which left three men killed. Being the sole survivor of a crime that occurred unwittingly, Jefferson is sentenced to death.
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My Train Leaves at Three: A Novel by Natalie Guerrero
An electric coming-of-age novel that explores grief, family, sexuality, and love as an ambitious young woman from Washington Heights tries to make it on Broadway—by a striking new voice in fiction.
In-person: 4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why?
Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review and New York Magazine.
In-person: 5/23, 30, 6/6, 6/13 & 6/20
Zoom: 5/26, 6/2, 6/9, & 6/16