Resilience is hosting a virtual summer book club from May 2020 through August 2020. Please see below for more details.
Resilience Summer Book Club
Click here to download our August discussion guide.
Click here to register for the August discussion.
Resilience is continuing to stay connected with the community this summer through our virtual Summer Book Club series. Join us as we come together to discuss topics like sexuality, family, relationships, incarceration, and more through our four chosen titles. Click here to download the series flyer. If you have additional questions, please contact Candice Tindell at ctindell@ourresilience.org.
Join us this August as we read and discuss Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi. Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their experiences inside–ranging from forced sterilization and shackling during childbirth, to physical and sexual abuse by prison staff. Together, their testimonies illustrate the harrowing struggles for survival that women in prison must endure.
Wednesday May 27, 2020
5:30–6:30pm CT
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Thursday, June 25, 2020
5:30–6:30pm CT
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Thursday, July 30, 2020
5:30–6:30pm CT
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Thursday, August 27, 2020
5:30–6:30pm CT
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi
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You can find all participating books at any of these places:
- Haymarket Books
- 57th St. Books (based in Hyde Park and taking online orders)
- Women & Children First (based in Andersonville and taking online orders)
- The Book Table (based in Oak Park and taking online orders)
- Pilsen Community Books (based in Pilsen, taking online orders, and will also give you book recommendations via Instagram DMs!)
- Open Books (based in West Loop and doing curbside pickup)
- Libro.fm (allows you to purchase audio books through your local bookstores)
- Audible.com (free for the first month)
