BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:319@jewishlifect.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T123000 DTSTAMP:20260812T155926Z URL:https://jewishlifect.org/events/coalition-reading-room-the-warmth-of-o ther-suns-by-isabel-wilkerson/ SUMMARY:Coalition READING ROOM: "The Warmth of Other Suns\," by Isabel Wilk erson DESCRIPTION:“New York Times bestseller and one of the five best books of the 21st century! *\nNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner \;* An& nbsp\;Oprah Daily \;Best Nonfiction Book of the\nPast Two Decades”\n \nThe Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North\nand West in search of a better life\, from World War I to 1970 .\nWilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforg ettable\nprotagonists: Ida Mae Gladney\, a sharecropper’s wife\, who in 1937 fled\nMississippi for Chicago\; sharp and quick-tempered George Starl ing\, who in\n1945 fled Florida for Harlem\, and Robert Foster\, a surgeon who left Louisiana in\n1953 in hopes of making it in California.\n\nWilke rson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys b y car and train and\ntheir new lives in colonies in the New World. The War mth of Other Suns is a bold\, remarkable\,\nand riveting work\, a superb a ccount of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land.\n\nThroug h the breadth of its narrative\, the beauty of the writing\, the depth of its research\, and the\nfullness of the people and lives portrayed herein\ , this book is a modern classic.\n\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Warmth-Other-Su ns-Americas-Migration/dp/0679763880\n\nJoin us!\n\n[gravityform id="3" tit le="true" description="true"] END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR