The Diversity Book Club’s Spring Season
Curl up with the Spring Season picks of the St. James Diversity Book Club (formerly the Adventure Book Club). The Diversity Book Club is an outreach ministry of the St. James’ Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission.

Group discussions will be held once a month in the St. James’ Toppie Bates Lakeside Room immediately following the 10:45 a.m. worship services. Light refreshments will be served. The books and dates for the Spring Season are listed below. There is no obligation to participate in both discussions. Join us when you can. Our goal is to enrich your reading experience through fellowship and sharing ideas—along with tasty treats.

April 21
There There (2018) by Tommy Orange.

The critically-acclaimed There There is an unflinching look at lives of urban Native Americans. “With a literary authority rare in a debut novel, it places Native-American voices front and center before readers’ eyes.” — Fresh Air, NPR.

From the publisher: Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows 12 characters from Native communities, all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. . . Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.”

The book earned the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award and was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of the Year.