Parchment Book Group: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Reading Together 2026)

Schedule

Mon Mar 09 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

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Parchment Community Library | Kalamazoo, MI

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The Parchment Book Group meets Monday, March 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Our featured book for March: The Reading Together 2026 Selection: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
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The Parchment Community Library is a Reading Together Partner with the Kalamazoo Public Library.
Meet the author at Chenery Auditorium (714 S. Westnedge Avenue in Kalamazoo) at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 11.
Click the link for more programs related to Reading Together at other locations: https://www.kpl.gov/events/category/reading-together/
From the publisher’s website:
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.
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​Join us for an hour of discussion of the featured book! Share your thoughts, share a quote or two from the book, and rate the book from 1-10.
New guests are always warmly welcomed! 🙂
Let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book!
Be sure to pick up a bookmark featuring all of our upcoming monthly Book Group selections -- find them in our lobby!
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Looking Ahead:
April 13: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (true crime)
May 11: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (historical fiction)
June 8: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (fiction)
July 13: Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs (biography) For America 250
August 10: Heart the Lover by Lily King (fiction)
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