Want to learn more about social justice, but don’t know where to start? Join us at BPL’s Social Justice Book Club, now in its second year! Meeting monthly on the fourth Tuesday of the month, this group will seek to create a brave space for learning and sharing a variety of perspectives. For September, we will amplify Latinx voices by discussing Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa.

In this honest memoir, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She offers a personal account of how the narrative around immigration has informed American attitudes toward outsiders, and how it has come at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—leaving us with the broken system we have today. An urgent call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all.

Please call Prosser or McMahon Wintonbury to reserve a copy of the book. You must provide your email address at registration to receive the Zoom link. Your Registration Confirmation Notice includes the Zoom link for the program. All participants will start with video off and sound muted. No computer/internet at home? Call the Library for the phone number, meeting ID and password, and join us over the phone.