The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali The Lion Women of Tehran is a work of historical fiction and the third novel by Iranian American author Marjan Kamali. The novel explores the intertwined yet divergent lives of two Iranian girls as they grow into adulthood and experience different social classes, political leanings and dreams. … Continue reading Social Justice Book Club, April 5, 2026 at noon
Soul Medicine for a Fractured World: Healing, Justice, and the Path of Wholeness by Liza J. Rankow This book club meeting will be on the fourth Sunday due to a wonderful opportunity to have the author present for a question and answer session after the sermon she gives us that day. Combining the insightful analysis … Continue reading Social Justice Book Club February 22, 2026
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong In the struggling town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai is saved from despair by Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia, forging an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives and reveals dynamics of love, memory, and resilience on the margins of society. The Social Justice Book Club meets on the first Sunday of the month at noon. We meet in … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read January 4, 2026
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile DeWeaver Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver argues that … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read December 7, 2025
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate This novel is inspired by the actual “Lost Friends” newspaper advertisements placed by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War as they searched for lost family members. It follows two intertwined storylines: one set in 1875 and one in 1987. The Social Justice Book Club meets on … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read November 2, 2025
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life. The Social Justice Book Club meets on the first Sunday of the month at noon. We meet in person … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read October 5, 2025
The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read September 7, 2025
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle In a moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the Jesuit priest and bestselling author of TATTOOS ON THE HEART, Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gang members in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring … Continue reading Social Justice Book Club Read August 3, 2025
James by Percival Everett The novel is a re-imagining of Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry’s friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave. The novel won the 2024 Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Social Justice … Continue reading Social Justice Book Club Read July 6, 2025
Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War by Sister Chan Khong Sister Chan Khong’s autobiography, Learning True Love, tells the story of her spiritual and personal odyssey through the many years of her life. The book’s centerpiece is her moving account of her return to Vietnam, her homeland, after 40 years of exile. She … Continue reading Social Justice Book Club Read May 4, 2025
