Subject: New year, new reading goals 📚

From: Texas Book Festival <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 22:14:47 +0000

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We’re all about setting new reading goals for the new year, and we suspect you are as well!

Still on our minds are all the great books featured at the 25th annual Texas Book Festival in the fall, including one book that’s really stuck with us: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prize-winning author (and TBF 2010 alum) Isabel Wilkerson.

We chose Caste as our December pick for the Austin360 Book Club Powered by TBF (https://www.facebook.com/groups/austin360bookclub) , as the session was the most attended session at the Festival and so many of you wanted to discuss the book more. We’re excited to announce we are hosting a free virtual book club discussion about Caste at the end of this month.

The conversation will be hosted by TBF Executive Director Lois Kim and Austin African American Book Festival Founder Rosalind Oliphant Jones. Come prepared to discuss this excellent book in an intimate setting with fellow book lovers on Thursday, January 28, at 5:30 p.m. CT! on January 28! The conversation is first-come, first-served, so make sure you register early if you’re planning to attend, since we only have a limited number of spots.

Register here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbpdkyAI6QLL_c4N5x7zKRfuJG0oISFmGtPBsYWccLlYLL6Q/viewform) to save your spot. You’ll receive a Zoom link closer to the event.

For our first book club pick of 2021, we’re reading Nights When Nothing Happened by Texas author Simon Han, which was named a 2020 Best Book of the Year by TIME, the Washington Post, and Harper’s Bazaar. Lone Star Literary Life calls the debut novel, which follows an Asian American immigrant family living in the Dallas suburbs, a “comedic, harrowing, thoughtful exploration of displacement, home, [and] infectious fear.” It is “absolutely luminous,” says fellow Texas novelist (and two-time TBF alum) Bryan Washington, a story that “weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga.”

Stay tuned for discussion details! Make sure you join the Austin360 Book Club Powered by TBF (https://www.facebook.com/groups/austin360bookclub) on Facebook for more book recommendations and monthly picks!
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