The author of this month’s KELOLAND Living Book Club book believes that the only way to cure our nation’s problem with racism is to start talking to each other. He’d like that conversation to continue until it becomes uncomfortable–and talk beyond that discomfort for us to really hear one another.
Kim Koblank is a Branch Librarian with Siouxland Libraries who chose this month’s selection, “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.” And while we do believe it’s on white people to educate themselves on the impacts of racism, Taylor Yocum agreed to join us today to lend his own personal experience to our conversation.
What do we all have to gain from pulling up a chair and talking- and how can we improve the world we live in? Let’s get uncomfortable.
And the next pick in the KELOLAND Living Book Club is…
by Julia Alvarez
Need more recommendations from the KELOLAND Living Book Club? Check these out:
KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘An Uncommon Friendship From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust”
KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘The Giver’
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KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘Patty Jane’s House of Curl’
KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’
KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘Only Plane in the Sky’
KELOLAND Living Book Club: “News of the World” by Paulette Jiles
KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘There There’ by Tommy Orange
KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘The Nightingale’
KELOLAND Living Book Club: “Quiet” by Susan Cain
KELOLAND Living Book Club pick, ‘Year of Wonders’, hits a little too close to home
KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘Nickel Boys’
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KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘Dry’ quenches your thirst for a good book
KELOLAND Living Book Club: ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’
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