Watermelon Book Club reads The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Schedule
Wed, 15 Jan, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
VI Regional Library Courtenay | Courtenay, BC
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Date: Wednesday January 15thTime: 6-8 PM
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.
Book Description:
In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation’s recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book’s longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground.
VIRL is not a co-sponsor of the Watermelon Book Club. Masks encouraged and provided.
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Where is it happening?
VI Regional Library Courtenay, Codes Country Lanes LTD, 307 6th St, Courtenay, BC V9N 1M2, Canada,Courtenay, British ColumbiaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
