5th November Book Club - A Book by a Black Author

Name: 5th November Book Club - A Book by a Black Author
Start: 2025-11-05T19:00:00+00:00
Location: William IV, Kenwyn St, Truro, TR1 3DJ

Schedule

Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

William IV, Kenwyn St, Truro, TR1 3DJ | Truro, EN

We will be meeting the first Wednesday of November to discuss the October read which will be decided with at least 2 months notice. October is Black History month so we will be looking for suggestions for great books by Black Authors, ideally with a link to societal or cultural history to link in with this theme.

We had a lot of great recommendations that went into the book vote selector. The winning book chosen from the short list by our members is
HomeGoing - Yaa Gyasi
Description from StoryGraph
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
One of Oprah's Best Books of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway award winner, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi's extraordinary novel illuminates slavery's troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.