The Bluest Eye and The Warmth of Other Suns Book Club Pairing

Tuesday, October 21, 6-7 pm

Book clubs are hosted at Novel (before or after hours) and are limited to 10 participants per book club; we love how a smaller group leaves us knowing what everyone loved and didn't love about the book. 

This book club includes the purchase of both books to discuss. Please read both before our meeting. 

Book club purchases include:

• Book - (in this case, two) must be picked up in-store; you'll receive an e-mail notification when we have it ready for you
• Sandwich - arrive between 5-6 pm before the book club to order your sandwich (kitchen closes at 6 pm)
• Beverage - pick during book club

All book club sales are final. Sandwiches and drinks must be redeemed during book club.

About the Books:

Bluest Eye: In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" ( The New York Times).

Warmth of Other Suns: In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970.

Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California.

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an "unrecognized immigration" within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.