Every month, Katie's Cup Book Club chooses moving and poignant stories to highlight the human condition. We meet on the second Thursday of the month at 10 AM and the club is free and open to the public.

Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, February 11th at 10am on Zoom.

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February's Selection: "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi

“Ghana, eighteenth century: two half-sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.

One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway award winner, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.”