Building Bridges Through Books, Reading Push, by Sapphire

Let’s build community together.

Come be a part of something truly special: A monthly gathering to explore race, faith, identity, and community through books and readings selected by the group itself.

Facilitated by Joyce Sharrock-Cole (Ossining Village Historian) and Abbe Marcus (Executive Director, Journeys To Change), these gatherings begin with light refreshments and informal exchange, followed by an hour of focused discussion. By meeting monthly, the intent is to build understanding, relationships, and community over time.

Schedule: We meet at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity from 7 to 8:30 PM on the 2nd Tuesday of each month: January 14, February 11, and March 11.

Materials: Books are available for purchase (for a 10% discount off the cover price) at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity.

Cost: There is no fee to participate; we simply ask for your RSVP for planning purposes.

For ourJanuary 14 meeting, we will discuss Push, by Sapphire. "Affecting and impassioned . . . sails on the strength of pure, stirring feeling."—The New York Times Book Review

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time. —Bookshop.org

Building Bridges Through Books is sponsored by Congregation Sons of Israel, First Church of Christ, Journeys To Change, and Hudson Valley Books for Humanity.