Now is the time to pick up your copy for JONAH’s first Book Club meeting in 2025 and start reading! When asked about the book choices and why JONAH has partnered with Dotters Bookshop, Sara Bishop said, “These discussions will be facilitated by all participants, but I will provide some thoughtful questions to get us started. In these post-election seas, I tried to choose books that would give us tools to be able to engage in conversation and relationships with others and give us a sense of hope in the future, because WE are the future. Dotters Bookshop is a Red Letter Grant woman-owned independent bookseller with a conscience, providing access to marginalized and underserved authors and subjects, so partnering with them for meeting is a natural collaboration.”
You can find the full schedule and reading list below:
February 18 – Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future – By Patty Krewac
April 15 – A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community – By Adam Russell Taylor
June 17 – Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom – By Derecka Purnell
August 12 – How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community – By Mia Birdsong
October 14 – We Who Believe in Freedom: Activism and the Struggle for Social Justice – By Alice P. Green
December 9 – Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness – By Jamil Zaki
Please register to attend one or multiple book club meetings here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmcmFq2t7S0vGhzN7_qXsCBIQPBVv_E8uGyQBOvZdBNYWIJg/viewform