Literary Libations Book Club

Literary Libations Book Club: Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins
📍 Whose Books | Dallas, TX
📅 Wednesday, March18 | 7:00 PM

Join us for Literary Libations, where powerful storytelling meets vibrant conversation. This book club is a space to gather, reflect, and connect over bold, thought-provoking literature—perhaps with your favorite drink in hand.

This month, we’re reading Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins, a richly layered novel that blends history, family legacy, mysticism, and the realities of contemporary racial injustice. Centered on generations of Black women and the extraordinary inheritance they carry, Caul Baby weaves together themes of power, lineage, motherhood, survival, and ambition.

“Ambitious and unique… Caul Baby is like nothing I’ve read before. It has historical references but is overwhelmingly a book of our time. It delivers a story that weaves the nuance of Black womanhood with intergenerational struggles and triumphs and the heartache of contemporary racial injustice.” — New York Journal of Books

Together, we’ll unpack the novel’s exploration of inherited gifts, complicated family dynamics, capitalism, and what it means to claim power in systems not built for you.

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