A summer book club for adults who want to read in community. We'll meet one Friday morning a month to chat about a title we read in common.

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Our August pick is:

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
by Camille T. Dungy (2023)

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.

In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013 with her husband and daughter, the community held restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it. - Publisher

Copies will be available at the circulation desk.

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The book club meets the following summer Fridays from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: 

• June 28
• July 26
• August 23