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The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende “When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined […]
Deacon King Kong by James McBride In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate […]
Caste The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Poetically written and brilliantly researched, Caste invites us to discover the inner workings of an American hierarchy that goes far beyond the confines of race, class, or gender. A book steeped in empathy and insight, Caste explores, through layered analysis and stories of real people, the […]
I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust by Emily Grodin and Valerie Gilpeer A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who’d long been unable to communicate—until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, who’d been trapped inside for more than two decades. […]
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen In the back of beyond in the Negev, somewhere between Omer and Beersheva, Dr. Eitan Green — a man of principle who ended up in Beersheva because he refused to tolerate bribery in the medical field — runs over an Eritrean migrant worker while on a midnight drive through the desert. He leaves his […]
In The Country of Women by Susan Straight A moving family saga celebrates generations of bold, brave, and determined women. Award-winning novelist Straight (Between Heaven and Here, 2012, etc.) makes her nonfiction debut with an eloquent, absorbing memoir. Addressed to her three adult daughters, the narrative weaves together stories that transcend time, place, race, and […]
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . Would you have done anything different, […]
Book Club Schedule 2021-2022 Our Sisterhood Book Club is open to all interested Sisterhood members. We meet typically on the third Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Date Book Author Leader September 21 The Overstory Richard Powers Ellen Sherman October 25 The Last Kings of Shanghai Jonathon Kaufman Carole Lebental November 15 Florence Adler […]
America’s Jewish Woman by Pamela Nadell America’s Jewish Women uncovers what it has meant to be a Jewish woman in America by weaving together the stories of remarkable individuals—from the colonial matron Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, the poet Emma Lazarus, to labor activist Bessie Hillman and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In this groundbreaking history, […]
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha “With Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeles’s violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understanding—of the pull of generational violence and its enduring devastation, but also of the power of human grace against all odds. It’s […]
