Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

  Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series June 14, 2025   Porter, Regina: The Rich People Have Gone Away       It’s during the COVID-19 pandemic. There's a white family, Darla and Theo and there’s two Black families, Ruby and her family, and Xavier and his family. The parallel family to Theo and Darla is Nadine, Curtis, and Xavier. One family has the resources to get out of the city and go up to Darla’s family home in the woods. The other family has a wife and mother in the hospital on a ventilator. The father and son are temporarily using a friend’s apartment so they can be closer to the hospital, even though the father never takes time off from his job as a prison counselor and they’re not allowed to see her anyway.      Marian started us out, saying, “ I thought that Nadine and her husband Curtis and Xavier could have been their own novel. ”   Meghan elaborated on that, saying, “ I thought the parallels between the two fa...