Woods Hole Public Library’s Social Justice Book Group is once again meeting in person, which they haven’t done since the summer of 2020. However, to be safe, the group will be meeting outside in the courtyard.
The first meeting will be on Wednesday, July 14 at 7:30 PM. The book to be discussed is Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origin of our Discontents. This book has been receiving a lot of press lately, especially in this area where several other book groups have read and discussed it with great interest.
There are still copies available at Cape libraries, in several different formats. All can be delivered to one’s local library through the CLAMS system. Also, local bookstores have been stocking the title.
This Social Justice Book Group, which has been meeting since 2016, discussed an earlier book of Wilkerson’s: The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration which tells the stories of the black populations moving north and west after emancipation. They found her writing clear and compelling, and expect to do the same with her newer book.
People should come to the discussion ready for the possibility of cooler evening air. If the weather turns to rain the group will move inside when masks will be required. For more information, call the Library at 508-548-8961.
The next book to be discussed is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner. Copies of the book will be available for checkout at the Library in plenty of time to read it before the discussion on August 18. Call to reserve your copy.