A monthly book club exploring various genres. Here is what we're reading:

• January: No Meeting
• February 22: My Mother’s Daughter by Perdita Felicien
  Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation’s hopes–she carried her mother Catherine’s dreams. Facing literal and figurative hurdles, she learned to leap and pick herself back up when she stumbled. This book is a daughter’s memoir–a book about the power of a parent’s love to transform their child’s life.
• March 21: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
• April 25: In the Upper Country by Thomas Kai
  The fates of two unforgettable women–one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life’s last vital act–intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.
• May 23: The Story of Us by Catherine Hernandez
  Like many Overseas Filipino Workers, Mary Grace Concepcion has lived a life of sacrifices. But when she arrives in Toronto, she must navigate a series of bewildering and careless employers and unruly children. Beautifully narrated by the all-seeing eye of Mary Grace's newborn baby, The Story of Us is a novel about sisterhood, about blood and chosen family, and about how belonging can be found where we least expect it.