ICL Book Club: Multicultural Themes

Meeting Dates and Times

Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month except December at 4:00 p.m., via Zoom. Andrea Zietlow will send the access links for the meetings. For questions and any additional information, contact Andrea Zietlow.

Upcoming Selections for 2024

• • January 9: Wandering Souls, by Cecile Pin
  • February 13: Sula, by Toni Morrison
  • March 12: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
  • April 9: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, by Lisa See
  • May 14: Refugee High: Coming of Age in America, by Elly Fishman
  • June 11: The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy

Past Selections

2023

• • • January 10: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
    • February 14: Silence is a Sense by Layla Al Ammar
    • March 14: The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
    • April 11: I am a Girl from Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
    • May 9: The Girl with the Louding Voiceby Abi Dare
    • June 13:Go Back to Where You Came From: & Other Helpful
      Recommendations on How to Become American by Wajahat Ali
    • July 11: When Red is Black, by Qiu Xialong
    • August 8: Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner
    • September 12: Now You See Us, by Balli Kaur Jaswa
    • October 10: She Would Be King, by Wayetu Moore
    • November 14: The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan

Past Selections

2022

• • • On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu
    • Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall
    • The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
    • Beautiful Country:  A Memoir by Qian Julie Wong
    • The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide, by Nice Leng’ete
    • The Blue Sky, by Galsan Tschinag
    • The Exiles, by Christina Baker Kline

2021

• • • The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
    • Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
    • The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
    • When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleton
    • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
    • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
    • The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
    • An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan
    • The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
    • Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
    • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
    • Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

2020

• • • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
    • Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
    • The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
    • When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleton
    • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
    • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
    • The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
    • An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan
    • The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
    • Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
    • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
    • Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo