Explore race in America

The Bridging Differences Bookclub is reading Richard Powers' The Time of Our Singing for our April 2nd meeting (7pm at Malaprop's Bookstore, downtown Asheville). We meet on the first Monday evening of each month.

Another excerpt from The Time of Our Singing:

"You don't know, and you're never going to know. That's what being black in this country means. You'll never know anything. When they give you your change and won't put it in your hand? When they cross the street a block down from you? Maybe they just had to cross the street. All you know for sure is that everyone hates you, hates you for catching them in a lie about everything they've ever thought of themselves."

The Time of Our Singing has been called "one of the best novels ever written about race in America."As another reviewer wrote: "the best black novel to appear in America since Beloved has just been written by a white man."

I hope you'll join us in reading and talking about this important book.

[NOTE: Our book for the May 7th meeting will be Patricia Raybon's My First White Friend.]