Exploring Diversity Book Discussion Group

Contact:
  
Shelly Case or Ruth MacFadyen
   Email:  diversity-book-group

 

The Exploring Diversity Discussion Group seeks to expand our awareness of all those issues that divide us. Books and videos about race, culture, sexual orientation, and physical or mental differences will be this group’s reading focus. It meets once a month at the Fellowship. See the calendar for the exact date and time. Videos will be loaned out on DVD.

 

Following are our selections for this year:  No meeting June, July and August.

 

Click HERE for our summer reading suggestions.
 
 

Sep Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Oct The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Nov Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn
Dec The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Jan The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Feb A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Mar The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Apr The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
May Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

 
PAST SELECTIONS:

  • All the Shah’s Men: an American Coup and the Roots of the Middle East by Stephen Kinzer

  • Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni

  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

  • Bend It Like Beckham Film directed by Gurinder Chadha

  • Blood from a Stone by Donna Leon

  • Book Thief, The by Markus Zusak

  • Brother I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

  • Children of a Lesser God play by Mark Howard Medoff

  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

  • Circle of Stones by Joan Dahr Lambert

  • Color of Water, The: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by Bucks County author James McBride

  • Crash (film)

  • Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime, The,by Mark Haddon

  • Day Without A Mexican: There Goes the Neighborhood, A (film)

  • Digging to America by Anne Tyler

  • Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

  • Dreams from My Father by Barak Obama

  • Ella Minnow Pea — by Mark Dunn

  • Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein

  • Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land

  • If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

  • Kaffir Boy: the True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane

  • Kite Runner, The, by Khaled Hosseini

  • Known World, The by Edward P. Jones

  • Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda by Rosamond Halsey Carr

  • Maria Full of Grace  (film), written and directed by Joshua Marston

  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

  • Milagro Beanfield War, The -- film

  • Monsoon Wedding – Film directed by Mira Nair

  • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder

  • Namesake, The: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

  • Plot against America, The by Philip Roth

  • Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen G. Bloom.

  • Price of a Child by Lorene Carey

  • Rape of Europa, The, film directed by R.Berge, N. Newnham & B.Cohen.

  • Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

  • Real Women Have Curves Film directed by Patricia Cardoso

  • Red Tent, The by Anita Diamant

  • Riding the Bus with My Sister: a True Life Journey by Rachel Simon

  • Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran by Terence Ward

  • Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

  • Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

  • Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran Xue

  • Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy

  • Soloist, The by Steve Lopez

  • Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadimann.

  • Step from Heaven, A by An Na

  • Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

  • Sweet Land -- film

  • 10 Questions fo the Dalai Lama, film directed by Rick Ray

  • There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Koltowitz

  • 36 Views of Mount Fuji by Cathy Davidson

  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

  • Tortilla Curtain, The, by T C Boyle

  • Travellers and Magicians (film)

  • White Balloon (film)

  • Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiama

  • Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by Zoya, et al by Zoya, et al
     

If  you cannot meet on Sunday evenings and are interested in reading the books and having another discussion group, please let us know if we can help you get started. Contact Shelly Case or Ruth MacFadyen with questions, email diversity-book-group.

 

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