Lift Every Voice Book Club

Lift Every Voice Book Club

2nd Tuesdays at 6:30 1/2 Room

Join the Hastings Public Library for a Lift Every Voice Book Discussion on October 8 at 6:30 PM in the Community Room. This session will explore Jamie Ford’s novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of a heartwarming yet challenging friendship between a Chinese American boy and a Japanese American girl during World War II, as their ethnic backgrounds shape their fates in vastly different ways.

The event aims to foster a more inclusive and accepting community, celebrating the diverse cultures and perspectives that make Hastings vibrant and unique.

All are welcome to attend!

November 12 - Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family : A Cookbook
by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams

beautifully written compendium is literary history, cookbook, family album, motherwit, daughter-grace, and the gospel truth. Many will be cooking from this book for years to come - Recipe Tasting included

December - none

January 14 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Cancer story and the revolutionary research, ethical questions, and racism wrapped up in the use of her cells. Previously, few people knew the source of HeLa cells. This book is about a woman who helped change modern medicine. Also consider the ethical dilemmas of using patient cells without knowledge or consent, the way race played a part in how Lacks was treated, and the impact on her family decades later.

February 11 - none
 
March 11 - Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Bouley

Discuss identity, community, lost history, grooming, injustice, violence toward women, and marginalized societies. 
 
April 8  - The Golden Voice by Gregory Cahill & Kat Baumann

true story of beloved Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, whose “Golden Voice” helped define Cambodia’s Golden Age of music until her mysterious disappearance in the killing fields of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.  Sothea's golden voice lives on in the popular music of Cambodia to this very day, her legacy continues to inspire. The Golden Voice tells the story of Sothea’s life, developed in partnership with Sothea’s surviving family, and accompanied by an interactive soundtrack.
 
May 13  - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

  Backgrounds, race, class, and family loyalties matter greatly, impacted by whether they’re members of the “kitchen house” or the “big house” or toil in the tobacco fields and live in slave quarters.
 
June 10  - none
 
July - none
 
August - none