Online Zoom Discussion on last Sunday of the month at 12pm PT (unless otherwise noted).Ĭlick the button below to learn more and register to receive the Zoom meeting link. Read 'A Career in Books A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun' by Kate Gavino available from Rakuten Kobo. Stanley and Nat Smith, with a Foreward by Cece McDonald Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall KimmererĬonsumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja BarberĬaptive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition, edited by Eric A. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy RobertsĮssential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes Publisher Penguin Books Category Hardcover Graphic Novel Artist Kate Gavino. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas A Publishers Weekly Best Books 2022: Comics pickA Career in Books is a. Graphic Novels & Comics, Literary, Asian American.
Past book club favorites include: BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer and MEDIOCRE: THE DANGEROUS LEGACY OF WHITE MALE AMERICA BY Ijeoma Oluo. Image of A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the. And the result is full of twists and revelations that surprise not only the reader, but the women themselves.Ĭharming, wry, and with fantastic black and white illustrations, A Career in Books is a modern ode to Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything, and perfect for fans of Good Talk, Younger and The Bold Type, as readers chart the paths of three Asian-American women trying to break through the world of books with hilarious, incisive, and heartbreaking results.Burning Issues Book Club (BIBC) is an online and local book club that gathers to read and discuss non-fiction works related to climate change, environmental degradation, environmental and social justice, and implementation of social change movements. When they meet their elderly neighbor, Veronica Vo, and discover she's a Booker Prize winner dubbed the “Tampax Tolstoy” by the press, each woman finds a thread of inspiration from Veronica’s life to carry on her own path. great? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They know they're paying their dues and the challenges they meet (Shirin's boss just assumes she knows Cantonese, Nina cannot get promoted by sheer force of will, and Silvia has to deal with daily microaggressions) are just part of “a career in books”. Shirin, Nina, and Silvia have just gotten their first jobs in publishing, at a University Press, a traditional publisher, and a trust fund kid's "indie" publisher, respectively.
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