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You now have four books to choose from.
For the month of October, the Readers and Writers Book Club is reading and commenting on Howard W. French’s Born in Blackness. Essays are due on or after October 25th. I’m halfway through the book and I liken it to Jared Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel, in that French looks back to the last five hundred years and tells us how we got to where we are now. I’m looking forward to writing and reading others’ takes on this book.
You could also choose to write on any of the other three books we have picked out so far: Ya Gyasi’s Homegoing (this first one is technically not in the monthly book club, but rather was the inspiration for the club), Marlon James’ the Book of Night Women, and adrienne maree brown’s Grievers.
When you write your essay, use the tag #RaWBC and look out for other writers who use the tag for their essays. We invite you to comment on any RaWBC essay, even if you haven’t read the book in question.
Here are my three essays:
