BOOK CLUB (resched.): Payback, by Margaret Atwood

Sep 25 2009 - 7:30am
Sep 25 2009 - 9:00pm

CPAE BOOK CLUB
Friday evenings, Old Parish House at 7:30 pm
Discuss Literary Non-fiction by Women at the CPAE Book Club.

Dates and Titles for fall include:

Sept 24 (resched.)-- Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, by Margaret Atwood. The noted fiction writer delves into a cultural analysis of the idea and reality of debt.

Oct 16-- The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, by Helene Cooper. A journalist writes of how she fled her home country of Liberia when civil war erupted in 1980 and returned after 23 years.

Nov 20-- Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, by Paula J. Giddings. This historian of American black women activists discusses great twentieth-century progressives, black and white, who worked alongside Wells and her anti-lynching campaign.

Dec. 18 -- Checkout: a Life on the Tills, by Anna Sam. A French cashiere writes an entertaining social commentary from her unseen position.

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