Uncle Bobbies welcomes professors Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams to talk about their powerful collaborative book.

In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born—use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, the authors take up what it means to read collaboratively and to learn in public as an act of individual reckoning and social resistance.

This brilliant confessional offers a radical vision for book groups as sites of self-discovery and communal healing. The Toni Morrison Book Club insists that we find ourselves in fiction and proposes Morrison as the preeminent spiritual guide to our most difficult thoughts and ideas about American life.

Books will be available for purchase. Signing to follow the reading & discussion.