Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

  The Urban Life Experience Book Discsussion Series continued on Jan. 9, 2021, with our first book discussion of the new year. The book, Homegoing , was published in 2016. Of course we met over Zoom.  There were actually 19 of us this time, one of the all-time highest number of participants. The book follows the generations of two sisters (unknown to each other), one stays in Africa and marries a British soldier, the other is enslaved and brought to what is now the US.   As the book moves down generations, the characters only refer to stories about their grandparents as though they're fables. The novel spans a great deal of time but each chapter is somewhat a short story in itself.  That's why the novel moves fast, covering a great span of time as a whole but focusing on individuals during  their  time. I had to keep going back to the family chart at the beginning in order to keep everyone straight. One of our readers, Marion S., pointed out that we have th...