• By Tony McCloud
  • Posted Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Pick up a good book and join us with the Alliance Book Club

The Alliance Book Club is a systemwide book club dedicated to reading and discussing books by and/or about members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The book club will meet on the fourth Saturday of each month at 11 a.m. at NorthStar LGBTQ+ Community Center. All are welcome.

For more information and to join the book club, please contact Tony McCloud (mcclouad@forsyth.cc).


January

  • Meeting: Saturday, January 25 at 11 a.m.
Ours Phillip B. Williams


An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that demands fierce protection.

In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours.
It is in this miraculous place that Saint’s grand experiment—a truly secluded community where her people may flourish—takes root. But although Saint does her best to protect the inhabitants of Ours, over time, her conjuring and memories begin to betray her, leaving the town vulnerable to intrusions by newcomers with powers of their own. As the cracks in Saint’s creation are exposed, some begin to wonder whether the community’s safety might be yet another form of bondage.

Set over the course of four decades and steeped in a rich tradition of American literature informed by Black surrealism, mythology, and spirituality, Ours is a stunning exploration of the possibilities and limitations of love and freedom by a writer of capacious vision and talent.

 Ours

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