Subject: Ruined Readers Book Club
From: "JVC Northwest" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:53:44 -0500 (EST)

Registration is still open!  Ruined Readers is back and in Washington D.C.! Join our 12th selection! Register today for Ruined Readers Book Club! We are rolling along with our 12th selection. This program year we will be selecting books written by authors of color as we continue to strive to create a more equitable and inclusive community. Join other former Jesuit Volunteers, current JVs, family, and friends in discussion around this great selection. Registration is now open for group meetings that will take place in February and March. Registration closes on February 1.  Join the Washington D.C. Book Club today! Register now! Check out our 12th Selection! Our third selection for the 2018-19 is Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie, born in Nigeria but now living both in her homeland and in the United States, is an extraordinarily self-aware thinker and writer, possessing the ability to lambaste society without sneering or patronizing or polemicizing. For her, it seems no great feat to balance high-literary intentions with broad social critique. “Americanah” examines blackness in America, Nigeria and Britain, but it’s also a steady-handed dissection of the universal human experience — a platitude made fresh by the accuracy of Adichie’s observations. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.  Have a book suggestion for a future round? Contact Majo Sandi, our Alumni Relations and Marketing Manager.  Registration for participants is still open! STAY CONNECTED Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest | P.O. Box 22125, Portland, OR 97269 Unsubscribe [email-masked] Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by [email-masked] in collaboration with Try it free tod