About this Event
Join us for a Feminist Reading Group to celebrate Women’s History Month in March!
A reading group is a little more structured than a book club but way more relaxed than a class. For this special three-week series we’ll be looking at the Women of Toni Morrison, discussing:
- Recitatif on Monday, March 3;
- Sula on Monday, March 10; and
- Beloved on Monday, March 17.
All sessions start at 7pm! You can attend just one or two sessions, but you’ll get the most out of attending all three so we can dive deep into the theme of feminism across these three incredible books.
Old Town Books' Feminist Reading Group is free and open to the public. While buying the book at OTB is not required to attend, we would greatly appreciate it to help keep our free literary programming sustainable! Buy your copy of Sula at the shop or online and note "reading group" to get 10% off.
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About the book:
Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital, Sula is a modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must we hold back? And just how much can be shared in a friendship?
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria, United States
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