Library Libations Book Club: Real Life by Brandon Taylor

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Book Clubs

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Adults
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Program Description

Book Clubs

Book clubs are prepared using age appropriate titles inspiring participants to engage in healthy discussions to stimulate positive communication skills. This monthly program encourages participants to read the chosen title prior to the discussion.

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Join Katie for an informal and lively discussion of Brandon Taylor's Real Life. 

Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends. But over the course of a late-summer weekend, a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate, conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community

You will receive an email with the Zoom link approximately one hour before the start of this program.