Spring 2025 MAVRC Book Club
About this Event

During the Spring 2025 semester, the MAVRC Book Club, hosted by Military and Veteran Services at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), will be reading and discussing The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Back Bay Books, 2013).

Military and Veteran Services will be giving away 7 free copies of the book!!! To request a free copy, please contact us at [email protected].

You may purchase a copy at any retailer of your choice or borrow a copy from your local library.

Trigger warning: Books selected may deal with themes and topics of war and combat; sexual assault, abuse, harassment, and violence; disabilities, physical and mental health, and trauma; gender and sexual identity; race, culture, and ethnicity; and politics and religion.

Politics of the authors of selected readings are not reflective of the Military and Veteran Services. Differing opinions and worldviews should be communicated intellectually with respect and understanding.

About the MAVRC Book Club

To truly recognize the military and veteran community is to be informed of the various and complex histories, experiences, and narratives of military culture and veteran knowledge. The MAVRC Book Club, organized by the Military and Veteran Services at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), will present a series of readings and discussions to better comprehend and interpret the policies and procedures that developed the United States Armed Forces, and make sense of the terrain and bureaucracy that military personnel and veterans navigate daily. Hosting such a book club will cultivate conversations with the purpose of dismantling stereotypes and the romanticism on the meaning of service. Through its diverse readings, the book club aims to highlight the contributions of its veterans, dissect the policies and procedures that have shaped military and veteran life, and to gain a worldly perspective on the conflicts that the United States Armed Forces has engaged in since its formal establishment.

All book club meetings are open virtually via Zoom to the public.