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Event name

Book Club

When

Tue 08 / 10 / 2021
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Where

Cal and Elise's

Who can attend

Open to all

Limited capacity: Registration Closed

Price

FREE

Book Club is meeting to discuss "The Home Place" by J Drew Lanham. 

Summary from Amazon:

"From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.

Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina―a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”―has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.”

By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South―and in America today."