AFC Book Club

Do you love a good book? Looking for a place to discuss that great new book you just read?
Join our book club as we navigate through a wide assortment of books and meet to discuss them.

 

Book for the month of June:

.The Vanishing Half examines sisterhood, black identity, and parenthood with compassion and conviction. The Vignes twins grew up inseparable in the ’60s in Mallard, Louisiana, a small town reserved for black residents with light skin. Stella and Desiree Vignes are tall and beautiful, and they dream of lives beyond the lynching of their father and housekeeping for white people, like their mother does. When they flee to New Orleans as teenagers, Stella discovers that she can pass as white, and so begins the fracture that will forever separate the twins. Stella disappears in California and continues to play the part of a white woman, keeping her past a secret from her husband and daughter. After leaving her abusive marriage, Desiree returns to Mallard with her daughter, Jude, who is “black as tar.” Jude, desperate to find a place where she fits in, goes to college in California and discovers she was searching not just for herself but for her mother’s sister. Told in flashbacks and alternating points of view, this novel asks what is personal identity, if not your past. A riveting and sympathetic story about the bonds of sisterhood and just how strong they are, even at their weakest. —Al Woodworth, Amazon Book Review

When: Jun 17, 2021, 01:00 PM Eastern Time (the US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErd-qtpzssHNUilSoyTLOA5J8FIvR378xG

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.


 

We will be taking the summer off for Book Club.  Check back in the fall for our launch date.