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BOOKS & BANTER - Future Book Pick Vote 📚
Cast Your Vote: Which Book Pick Sparks Your Interest the Most?
This month’s reads are all about stories that challenge, inspire, and push us to see the world differently. Which one speaks to you?
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Click on the book you want to read the most.
1973 Alabama: Fresh out of nursing school, Carrie aims to empower Black women. Until she’s sent to two sisters, just 11 and 13, forced on birth control for being poor. When tragedy strikes, Carrie’s silence haunts her for decades. Now close to retirement, she can no longer outrun the past. There are people and stories that refuse to be forgotten.That must not be forgotten. Because history repeats what we don’t remember.
Callie knows how to steal candy from the shop without getting caught, the best hiding place for hide-and-seek, the perfect wall for handstands. Now she has a new secret. It gives her a fizzing, funny feeling in her belly. She doesn't get to feel power like this at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. 15 yrs later, She is trying to be a good mom to young daughter, Maggie. She is always worried about affording food, school clothes, about what the other mothers think of her. Most of all she worries that social services are going to take Maggie away. That's when the phone calls begin, which Callie is too afraid to answer, because it's clear the caller knows the truth about what happened all those years ago. And it's time to face the truth: is forgiveness and redemption ever possible for someone who has committed an atrocious act?
Alexis is young and just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her. Painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eddie, a white middle-aged guy with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn’t already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Alexis finds herself falling head-first into Eddie’s home and family.